CRIMINAL COURT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A court having jurisdiction over criminal cases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("criminal 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 "criminal court"):

night court (a criminal court (in large cities) that sits at night)

Old Bailey (the central criminal court in London)