SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Supreme Court of the United States mean? 

• SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (noun)
  The noun SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (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 of the United States" 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 of the United States" is a member of...):

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