CRIMINAL COURT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does criminal court mean? 

• CRIMINAL COURT (noun)
  The noun CRIMINAL COURT has 1 sense:

1. a court having jurisdiction over criminal cases

  Familiarity information: CRIMINAL COURT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRIMINAL COURT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A court having jurisdiction over criminal cases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("criminal court" is a kind of...):

court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "criminal court"):

night court (a criminal court (in large cities) that sits at night)

Old Bailey (the central criminal court in London)