Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A building housing judicial courts.
- noun A building housing a county government's offices.
- noun A county seat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A building in which courts of law are held; a building appropriated to the use of law-courts.
- noun In the southern United States, the village or town in which such a building is situated; a county-seat: common in the names of places: as, Culpeper Court-House, in Virginia. Abbreviated C. H.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun U.S. A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings.
- noun A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A public building housing courts of law.
- noun US The public building where most American counties have their county offices.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a government building that houses the offices of a county government
- noun a building that houses judicial courts
Etymologies
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Examples
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What was going on inside the courthouse is less clear.
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One immediate improvement Tillerson Adams hopes to bring to the Upper Marlboro courthouse is wireless capability, which would allow attorneys and courthouse observers to get online with their laptops.
New Md. administrative judge looks to technology Ruben Castaneda 2010
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The new courthouse is a winner if you love maximum solar energy and accompanying sun glare dominating the entry and hallways.
Craig Alan Silverman: Tancredo, Buck and Fallon for This Colorado Independent Craig Alan Silverman 2010
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The new courthouse is a winner if you love maximum solar energy and accompanying sun glare dominating the entry and hallways.
Craig Alan Silverman: Tancredo, Buck and Fallon for This Colorado Independent Craig Alan Silverman 2010
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For the low-maintenance types, eloping with just your sweetie and a witness to the local courthouse is your cheapest and greenest option.
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The morass also threatens sales activity fueled by investors who purchase homes in courthouse foreclosure auctions.
Insurers Ease on Amnesty Nick Timiraos 2010
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The furrowed brows and grave tones of newsfolk over helicopter shots of people gathered outside the courthouse is laughable.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Th real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this:
GOP congressman will not seek re-election after affair revealed 2008
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If you want to blog about our judicial system, you can take a look to our main courthouse, a few blocks from your apartment at Recoleta.
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The furrowed brows and grave tones of newsfolk over helicopter shots of people gathered outside the courthouse is laughable.
Of Course... 2008
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