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court-house

court-house is the obsolete spelling of courthouse.

Meaning of courthouse

Noun

courthouse (plural courthouses)

  1. A public building housing courts of law.
  2. (US) The public building where most American counties have their county offices.

Forms of court-house

pluralcourt-houses

Questions about court-house

What is court-house the obsolete spelling of?
Court-house is the obsolete spelling of courthouse.

Words near court-house in the dictionary

  1. court tennis
  2. court-baron
  3. court-barons
  4. court-cupboard
  5. court-cupboards
  6. court-house
  7. court-houses
  8. court-leet
  9. court-leets
  10. court-marshal
  11. court-martial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: court-house (page history and authors); courthouse (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.

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