COURT OF APPEALS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

appeals court; appellate court; court of appeals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("court of appeals" 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 "court of appeals"):

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