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ct

ct is the abbreviation of court.

Meaning of court

Noun

court (plural courts)

  1. An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
    • The girls were playing in the court.
    1. (Australia, US) A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
    2. (Hong-Kong) A housing estate under the Home Ownership Scheme.
    3. (Hong-Kong) An apartment building, or a small development of several apartment buildings.
  2. (social) The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
    • The noblemen visited the queen in her court.
  3. (social) The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
    • Meronym: royal household

See all 27 meanings of court

Proper noun capitalized: CT

CT

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Connecticut: a state of the United States.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Central Time.
    • Customers can call 1-877-300-6153 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. CT to get their questions answered, arrange to return their pills or report problems. Information is also available at http://www.qualitestrx.com/pdf/OCRecall.pdf.2011 September 16, “Birth control pills recalled due to ‘packaging error’”, in CNN, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2021
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Coffin Texts.

Noun (1) capitalized: CT

CT (countable and uncountable, plural CTs)

  1. (abbreviation, especially, initialism) Initialism of computed tomography.
    • E.M.T.s arrived soon after and transported her to MarinHealth Medical Center, where a CT scan showed bleeding between the skull and the brain.2025 November 30, David Darlington, “The Shocking Crash That Led Marin County to Reckon With the Dangers of E-Bikes”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company...
    1. (countable, especially) A CT scan.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of cold turkey.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of cocktease.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of camel toe.
  5. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of combat team.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Chlamydia trachomatis; chlamydia.
    • An appointment with a clinician at which the patient or partner(s) can receive testing and care for all STDs and HIV is the preferred management strategy for CT and GC [gonorrhea] treatment.2012, California Department of Public Health Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control Branch, California STD Controllers Association, “Executive Summary”, in Guidelines for the Treatment of Chlamydia...

Verb capitalized: CT

CT (third-person singular simple present CTs, present participle CTing, simple past and past participle CTed)

  1. (informal, transitive) To perform a CT scan on.
    • There's a certain something that emanates from a confused patient that this fellow doesn't have. I sure wish I had more 'terps. Well, we're not going to CT him right away. There are two other fellows before him. “Get a plain film of his head, Tim. […]”2013, Marc Dauphin, Combat Doctor: Life and Death Stories from Kandahar's Military Hospital, Toronto: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 197

Adjective capitalized: CT

CT (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of contraterrene.

Noun (2) capitalized: Ct

Ct (plural Cts)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, molecular biology) Initialism of cycle threshold.
    • The call came late on Sunday when Chinese officials decided that Gill’s CT levels, a measure of how much viral material is detected, were within an acceptable range.2022 February 6, Rick Rojas, “A positive coronavirus test, a trip home, and then a surprise win for Australia.”, in The New York Times
  2. (alternative) Alternative form of Ct..

Synonyms of ct

Forms of ct

Noun
pluralcts
pluralCTs
pluralCts
Verb
third-person singular presentCTs
present participleCTing
past participleCTed
pastCTed

Words formed from ct

Phrases with ct

Questions about ct

What does ct mean?
Ct means a CT scan.
What is ct the abbreviation of?
Ct is the abbreviation of court.
What part of speech is ct?
Ct can be a proper noun, a noun, a verb or an adjective.

Words near ct in the dictionary

  1. cswk
  2. CSWS
  3. CSX
  4. csárdás
  5. csárdáses
  6. ct
  7. CT scan
  8. CT scans
  9. ct.
  10. Ct. of App.
  11. CTA

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ct (page history and authors); CT (page history and authors); Ct (page history and authors); 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.

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