SUPERIOR COURT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does superior court mean? 

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

1. any court that has jurisdiction above an inferior court

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERIOR COURT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any court that has jurisdiction above an inferior court

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

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

Domain category:

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

 Context examples 

Across the table from him, cater-cornered, at Mr. Morse's right, sat Judge Blount, a local superior court judge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)