SUPREME COURT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Supreme Court mean? 

• SUPREME COURT (noun)
  The noun SUPREME COURT has 2 senses:

1. the highest federal court in the United States; has final appellate jurisdiction and has jurisdiction over all other courts in the nation

2. the highest court in most states of the United States

  Familiarity information: SUPREME COURT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPREME COURT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The highest federal court in the United States; has final appellate jurisdiction and has jurisdiction over all other courts in the nation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Supreme Court; Supreme Court of the United States; United States Supreme Court

Hypernyms ("Supreme Court" is a kind of...):

federal court (a court establish by the authority of a federal government)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Holonyms ("Supreme Court" is a member of...):

judicial branch (the branch of the United States government responsible for the administration of justice)

Sense 2

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 ("supreme 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)

 Context examples 

He refused the United States Senate several times, and father says he could become a justice of the Supreme Court any time a vacancy occurs, if he wants to.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was a 1995 US Supreme Court case which was preceded by lawsuits on the part of timber companies, and by years of large protests by timber workers and their communities who feared job losses.

(Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all, Wikinews)

FDA and the Supreme Court have stated that label is to be interpreted liberally, and includes not only that which accompanies an article but also that which spiritually accompanies an article as well as supplements.

(Medical Product Label, NCI Thesaurus)

The men of literature were the world's giants, and he conceived them to be far finer than the Mr. Butlers who earned thirty thousand a year and could be Supreme Court justices if they wanted to.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)