court
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.
Example
“The girls were playing in the court.”
Other meanings
A housing estate under the Home Ownership Scheme.
An apartment building, or a small development of several apartment buildings.
A kind of
- area
Kinds of court
- atrium
- cloister
- food court
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "cohors".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “court” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.