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HIGH COURT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does high court mean?
• HIGH COURT (noun)
The noun HIGH COURT has 1 sense:
1. the highest court in most states of the United States
Familiarity information: HIGH COURT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The highest court in most states of the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
high court; state supreme court; supreme court
Hypernyms ("high court" is a kind of...):
court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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