judge
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- judg (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Old French juge (“judge (noun)”), juger (“judge (verb)”), ultimately from Latin iūdicare (“pass judgement upon”), from iūdicem (“accusative of iūdex”), from iūdex (“judge”), from iūs (“law”) + dicus (“speaker”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
judge (plural judges)
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person officiating at a sports or similar event.
- At a boxing match the decision of the judges is final.
- A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
- He is a good judge of wine.
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Translations[edit]
public judicial official
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someone deciding another's fate
sports official
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someone with valued opinions
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Verb[edit]
judge (third-person singular simple present judges, present participle judging, simple past and past participle judged)
- (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
- A higher power will judge you after you are dead.
- (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- Justices in this country judge without appeal.
- (transitive) To form an opinion on.
- I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
- (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.
- (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
- (intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
- I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII
- THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.
- (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Wikisaurus:deem
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to sit in judgment on, pass sentence on
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to sit in judgment on, act as judge
to form an opinion on
to arbitrate, to pass opinion on something
to have as an opinion, consider, suppose
to form an opinion, infer
to criticize or label another person or thing
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