court
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Definition
noun (English)
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.AustraliaUS
2. 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.Hong-Kong
3. 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.Hong-Kong
4. (social) Royal society.Examples: "The noblemen visited the queen in her court."; "This our court, infected with their manners, / Shows like a riotous inn."
5. (social) Royal society.Examples: "Meronym: royal household"; "The queen and her court traveled to the city to welcome back the soldiers."; "My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you."
6. (social) Royal society.Examples: "The princesses[…] held their court within the fortress."
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To seek to achieve or win (a prize).Examples: "He was courting big new accounts that previous salesmen had not attempted."; "On the contrary, they employed the brief respite that was left them in fortifying one another's courage, and in bearing testimony to the truth in so earnest a manner that they might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom."; "Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of a grave will sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the churchyard […]"transitive
2. (transitive) To risk (a consequence, usually negative).Examples: "She courted controversy with her frank speeches."; "It is not unknown for hot axleboxes to fail completely and for wagons to become derailed as a result. Surely it is courting disaster to allow a train to proceed for up to seven miles with a defective vehicle before it can be brought to a halt?"transitive
3. (transitive) To try to win a commitment to marry from.Examples: "If either of you both love Katharina […] / Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure."transitive
4. (transitive) To engage in behavior conducive to mating with.Examples: "The bird was courting a potential mate by performing an elaborate dance."; "By one person, however, Portland was still assiduously courted, and that person was the king."transitive
5. (transitive) To attempt to attract; to invite by attractions; to allure.Examples: "[…] a well-worn pathway courted us / To one green wicket in a privet hedge […]"; "It is a grim, grey old town, standing on bleak, precipitous cliffs that court every passing hurricane, […]"Synonyms: charm, entrance, allure, arrest, attract, becharm, beguile, bewitchtransitive
6. (transitive) To attempt to gain alliance with.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary