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courthouse

/ˈkɔɹt.haʊs/

courthouse noun: a public building housing courts of law.

courthouse: a public building housing courts of law
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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.

courthouse meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Punjabi

courthouse in Hindi

कोर्टहाउस

courthouse in Tamil

கச்சேரி

courthouse in Bengali

কোর্টহাউস

courthouse in Punjabi

courthouse or office
ਕਚਹਿਰੀ kachirī
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courthouse in Gujarati
કોર્ટહાઉસ
courthouse in Tagalog
hukuman, bulwagan ng katarungan
courthouse in Vietnamese
toà án

Examples of courthouse in a sentence

  • They put the lug on him at the courthouse.
  • He'd paid a fine on that rinky-dink deal at the courthouse in Forsyth the very next day.
  • Composed and genial, the Corries cut an impressive figure in the sun-drenched Haifa courthouse.

All 17 example sentences with courthouse

Synonyms of courthouse

Forms of courthouse

pluralcourthouses

Plural of courthouse: courthouses

Origin of courthouse

From court + house.

Words formed from courthouse

Questions about courthouse

What does courthouse mean?
Courthouse means a public building housing courts of law.
What is courthouse in Hindi?
Courthouse in Hindi is कोर्टहाउस. See Courthouse meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is courthouse?
Courthouse is a noun.
How do you pronounce courthouse?
Courthouse is pronounced /ˈkɔɹt.haʊs/ (US).
What is the plural of courthouse?
The plural of courthouse is courthouses.

Words near courthouse in the dictionary

  1. courtezans
  2. courtezanship
  3. courtful
  4. Courthope
  5. Courthopes
  6. courthouse
  7. courthouses
  8. courtier
  9. courtier-like
  10. courtierdom
  11. courtieress

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: courthouse (page history and authors); courthouse (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); courthouse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); courthouse (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ਕਚਹਿਰੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); courthouse (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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