Definition of courts

"courts" in the noun sense

1. court, tribunal, judicature

an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

2. court, courtroom

a room in which a lawcourt sits

"television cameras were admitted in the courtroom"

3. court, royal court

the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state

4. court

a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played

"players had to reserve a court in advance"

5. Court, Margaret Court

Australian woman tennis player who won many major championships (born in 1947)

6. court, royal court

the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince

7. motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court, court

a hotel for motorists provides direct access from rooms to parking area

8. court, lawcourt, court of law, law court, court of justice

a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws

9. court

the residence of a sovereign or nobleman

"the king will visit the duke's court"

10. court, courtyard

an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings

"the house was built around an inner court"

11. court, homage

respectful deference

"pay court to the emperor"

"courts" in the verb sense

1. woo, court, romance, solicit

make amorous advances towards

"John is courting Mary"

2. woo, court

seek someone's favor

"China is wooing Russia"

3. court

engage in social activities leading to marriage

"We were courting for over ten years"

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Quotations for courts

Courts keep no almanacks. [ Proverb ]

The anticipation of evil courts evil [ Mme. Deluzy ]

He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [ Seneca ]

Love lives more in cottages than courts. [ Proverb ]

The man who pardons easily courts injury. [ Corneille ]

Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest.
Save he who courts the flattery. [ Hannah More ]

Let thy great deeds force fate to change her mind;
He that courts fortune boldly, makes her kind. [ John Dryden ]

It is time to marry when the woman courts the man. [ Proverb ]

It is at courts as it is in ponds, some fish, some frogs. [ Proverb ]

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. [ Chalmers ]

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Adulation is the death of virtue. Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, save he who courts the flattery. [ Hannah More ]

Give me flattery - flattery, the food of courts, that I may rock him, and lull him in the down of his desires. [ Beaumont ]

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes. [ Southern ]

One (poem) courts the shade; another, not afraid of the critic's keen eye, chooses to be seen in a strong light; the one pleases but once, the other will still please if ten times repeated. [ Horace ]

If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together - a main plot and an underplot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress. [ Colton ]

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. [ Goldsmith ]

Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters. [ Colton ]

courts in Scrabble®

The word courts is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters courts:

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courts in Words With Friends™

The word courts is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters courts:

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Words containing the sequence courts

Words that start with courts (5 words)

Words with courts in them (1 word)

Words that end with courts (3 words)

Word Growth involving courts

Shorter words in courts

our court

Longer words containing courts

backcourts

courtship courtships

courtside courtsides

lawcourts