JUDGES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Judges mean? 

• JUDGES (noun)
  The noun JUDGES has 1 sense:

1. a book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges

  Familiarity information: JUDGES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUDGES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Judges; Judges

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Judges" is a part of...):

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Nebiim; Prophets (the second of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)

 Context examples 

Your brain puts information it judges to be important into "files."

(Memory, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

I commit my cause to the justice of my judges, yet I see no room for hope.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"But you don't hold yourself superior to all the judges of music?" she protested.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It seems when it comes to your performance, if you had judges like the ones at the Olympics, you’d be getting all perfect 10s!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He had been too much expected by the best judges, for surprize—but there was great joy.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The judges chosen were Mr. Oliver and an able lawyer: both coincided in my opinion: I carried my point.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The second course was so equal that the keenest judges could not discern any vantage.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You walk, sir, with your judges.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I think, Clara,” said Mr. Murdstone, in a low grave voice, “that there may be better and more dispassionate judges of such a question than you.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of directing accordingly.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)