UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does United States Supreme Court mean? 

• UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT (noun)
  The noun UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT has 1 sense:

1. the highest federal court in the United States; has final appellate jurisdiction and has jurisdiction over all other courts in the nation

  Familiarity information: UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The highest federal court in the United States; has final appellate jurisdiction and has jurisdiction over all other courts in the nation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Supreme Court; Supreme Court of the United States; United States Supreme Court

Hypernyms ("United States Supreme Court" is a kind of...):

federal court (a court establish by the authority of a federal government)

Domain category:

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

Holonyms ("United States Supreme Court" is a member of...):

judicial branch (the branch of the United States government responsible for the administration of justice)