CHIEF JUSTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chief justice mean? 

• CHIEF JUSTICE (noun)
  The noun CHIEF JUSTICE has 1 sense:

1. the judge who presides over a supreme court

  Familiarity information: CHIEF JUSTICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIEF JUSTICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The judge who presides over a supreme court

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("chief justice" is a kind of...):

judge; jurist; justice (a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Instance hyponyms:

Burger; Warren Burger; Warren E. Burger; Warren Earl Burger (United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by Richard Nixon (1907-1995))

Chase; Salmon P. Chase; Salmon Portland Chase (United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873))

Ellsworth; Oliver Ellsworth (United States jurist and the third chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1807))

Fuller; Melville W. Fuller; Melville Weston Fuller (United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910))

Charles Evans Hughes; Hughes (United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1862-1948))

Jay; John Jay (United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829))

John Marshall; Marshall (United States jurist; as chief justice of the Supreme Court he established the principles of United States constitutional law (1755-1835))

Rehnquist; William Hubbs Rehnquist; William Rehnquist (United States jurist who served as an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court from 1972 until 1986, when he was appointed chief justice (born in 1924))

John Rutledge; Rutledge (United States jurist and second chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; he was appointed by George Washington and briefly served as chief justice but was ultimately rejected by the United States Senate (1739-1800))

Harlan F. Stone; Harlan Fisk Stone; Harlan Stone; Stone (United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946))

President Taft; Taft; William Howard Taft (27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1857-1930))

Roger Brooke Taney; Roger Taney; Taney (United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; remembered for his ruling that slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens (1777-1864))

Frederick Moore Vinson; Vinson (United States jurist who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court (1890-1953))

Morrison R. Waite; Morrison Remick Waite; Morrison Waite; Waite (United States jurist who was appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1874 by President Grant (1816-1888))

Earl Warren; Warren (United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974))

Edward D. White; Edward Douglas White Jr.; Edward White; White (United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921))