judge
/d͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms judges judging judged judg iudge
- noun A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- noun A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- noun A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar; referee. “At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.”
- noun A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion. “She is a good judge of wine.”
- noun (historical, biblical) A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
- verb (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter). “A higher power will judge you after you are dead.”
- verb (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge. “Justices in this country judge without appeal.”
- verb (transitive) To judicially rule or determine.
- verb (transitive, obsolete) To sentence to punishment, to judicially condemn. “He was judged to die for his crimes.”
- verb (transitive, obsolete) To award judicially; to adjudge.
- verb (transitive) To form an opinion on; to appraise. “I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.”
- verb (transitive, obsolete) To constitute a fitting appraisal or criterion of; to provide a basis for forming an opinion on.
- verb (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc. “We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.”
- proper noun A surname originating as an occupation.
- proper noun (Christianity) epithet of God or Jesus in his role as supreme arbiter
- proper noun A male given name of rare usage
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States, named after Edward Judge.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri, United States, named for a local judge who owned the town site.
- noun The title of a judge.
Synonyms
magistrate justice justiciar justiciary chief justice Chief Justiciar Capital Justiciary Chief Justiciary justicer sheriff bailiff reeve doomsman deemer deemster judg rule on try adjudge adjudicate jurist evaluator evaluate pass judgment estimate gauge approximate guess pronounce label
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English juge, jugge, from Old French juge, from Latin iūdex. Displaced native Middle English deme (from Old English dēma (“judge”)) and demere (from Old English dēmere (“judge”)), see also deemer, deemster.
From Middle English jugen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman juger, from Old French jugier, from Latin iūdicāre. Doublet of judicate.
Partly displaced native deem.
From judge.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.
- noun One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic.
- verb To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.
- verb To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3.
Etymology [OE. juge, OF. & F. juge, fr. OF. jugier, F. juger, to judge. See Judge, v. i.]
Etymology [OE. jugen, OF. jugier, F. juger, L. judicare, fr. judex judge; jus law or right + dicare to proclaim, pronounce, akin to dicere to say. See Just, a., and Diction, and cf. Judicial.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “judge”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details