APPELLATE COURT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appellate court mean? 

• APPELLATE COURT (noun)
  The noun APPELLATE COURT has 1 sense:

1. a court whose jurisdiction is to review decisions of lower courts or agencies

  Familiarity information: APPELLATE COURT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPELLATE COURT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A court whose jurisdiction is to review decisions of lower courts or agencies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

appeals court; appellate court; court of appeals

Hypernyms ("appellate court" is a kind of...):

court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "appellate court"):

circuit court of appeals (one of the twelve federal United States courts of appeals that cover a group of states known as a 'circuit')