Word.ws English Dictionary

base courts

base courts is the plural of base court.

Meaning of base court

Noun

base court (plural base courts)

  1. The secondary, inferior, outdoor or rear courtyard of a large house, palace or castle.
    • My Lord, in the base Court he doth attend
      To speake with you, may it please you to come downe.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...
  2. (historical) An inferior court of law, not a court of record.

Questions about base courts

What is base courts the plural of?
Base courts is the plural of base court.

Words near base courts in the dictionary

  1. base classes
  2. base coat
  3. base coats
  4. base communications
  5. base court
  6. base courts
  7. base fee
  8. base fees
  9. base flashing
  10. base fluid
  11. base fluids

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: base courts (page history and authors); base court (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “base courts.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/base_courts. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.