court

/kɔːt/

US pronunciation

American sound/kɔːt/

court

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Aw vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> court

Myanmar meaning

(n) တရားရုံး။

Full entry

court /kↄ:t/ n

၁။ (က) [C] တရားရုံး။ ခုံရုံး။ လွှတ်ရုံး။
the civil courts တရားမရုံး။ ❍ a magistrate's court ရာဇဝတ်ရုံး။ ❍ initiate court proceedings ❍ attend a court hearing ❍ She had to appear in court to give evidence. ❍ This case will never get/ go to court. ဒီအမှုက ရုံးရောက်မှာ မဟုတ်ဘူး။ ❍ The case was settled out of court (ie was settled without the need for it to be heard in court) ❍ an out-of-court settlement. (ခ) the court [sing] တရား စီရင်ရေး အဖွဲ့။ ခုံအဖွဲ့။ The court rose (ie stood up) as the judge entered. ❍ the court's ruling/ decision ❍ Please tell the court all you know. See also CONTEMPT OF COURT, COUNTY COURT, CROWN COURT, HIGH COURT, KANGAROO COURT, SUPREME COURT
၂။ (often Court ) (က) [C]နန်း။ နန်းတော်။ attend a ceremony at court. (ခ) the court [sing] မင်း မိဖုရားနှင့် မှူးကြီးမတ်ရာ သေနာပတိ။ The court moves to the country in the summer. See also COURTIER.
၃။ [C] (sport ) (တင်းနစ်၊ တင်းနစ်ကဲ့သို့သော) ကစားကွင်း။ a tennis/ squash court ❍ They've been on court now for 3 hours.
၄။ [C] (Brit ) (abbr Ct ) (လမ်းစု၊ အိမ်စုကို ရည်ညွှန်းသော အခေါ်စကား)။ ရိပ်သာ။ She lives at 23, Waverley Court.
၅။ [C] = COURTYARD
v
၁။ (dated ) (က) လူပျိုလှည့်သည်။ ပိုးသည်။ He had been courting Jane for six months.
(ခ) သမီးရည်းစား စုံတွဲ ခုတ်သည်။ a courting couple ❍ The two have been courting for a year. See also COURTSHIP ၁ (က)
၂။ (က) မျက်နှာချိုသွေးသည်။ He has been assiduously/ blatantly courting the director in the hope of getting the leading part in the play. ❍ He is being courted as a possible buyer for the company. (ခ) (fml often derog ) ဖားသည်။ ကပ်သည်။ court sb's approval/ support.
၃။ (usu not passive) (အန္တရာယ်ကို၊ ပြဿနာကို) ဖိတ်ခေါ်သည်။ Once again he has courted controversy/ disapproval. ❍ To go on such an expedition with inadequate supplies would be to court disaster.
❏ court-card (Brit ) (US face-card ) n ဂျက်၊ ကွင်း၊ ကင်း ဖဲချပ်။ ကုလားဖဲ။
❏ court -house n (က) ရုံး(အဆောက်အအုံ)။
(ခ) (US ) ဒေသန္တရအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးရုံး။
❏ court of appeal (pl courts of appeal ) (also appeal court ) n အယူခံရုံး။
❏ court of inquiry n (pl courts of inquiry ) (law ) စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးရေး ခုံအဖွဲ့။
❏ court of law n (pl courts of law ) = LAWCOURT
❏ court order n တရားသူကြီး အမိန့်။ ရုံးမိန့်။
❏ court shoe n မိန်းမစီး ခွာသေးဒေါက်မြင့် အပေါ့စား ရှူး ဖိနပ်။
❏ hold court [IDM ] ပရိသတ်ကို လက်ခံတွေ့ဆုံသည်။ There's a movie star holding court in the hotel lobby.
❏ out of court [IDM ] ထည့်တွက်စဉ်းစားရန် မသင့်တော်၊ အရေးမကြီး။ The sheer cost of the scheme puts it right out of court. ❍ His remark was ruled out of court.
❏ take sb to court [IDM ] တရားစွဲသည်။ အမှုလုပ်သည်။ He was taken to court over an alleged breach of contract.

More examples

[in court] : The letter was read aloud in court.
[appear in court] : Duggan will appear in court on Monday.
A police officer told the court that he had seen Brown leaving the house.
The evidence before the court (=being considered by the court)
They are dropping their court case against him.
She got a court injunction banning her husband from her home.
[go to court] : She threatened to go to court if he did not pay up.
[take someone to court] : Lynn took her employers to court for compensation.
[come to court] : It took five years for the case to come to court.
[settle out of court] : Mr Lodge settled out of court for £50, 000.
You can always try to get your money back through the courts.
The courts ruled that the company are entitled to make a fair profit.
[tennis/squash/basketball/badminton court] : The hotel has two tennis courts.
[on court] : The players had been on court for over two hours.
An influential member of the court of Henry VIII
They live at 27 Mallory Court.

Synonyms

courtyard, square, quad, patio, Federal Court, Supreme Court, address, allure, ask for, ask in marriage, attention, attract, bar, bench, beseech, bid, bootlick, captivate, castle, charm, chase, city hall, cloister, close, compass, cortege, county courthouse, court of justice, court of law, courthouse, courtroom, cozy up, crown court, cultivate, curry favor, curry favor with, curry favour with, curtilage, date, enclosure, encourage, entice, entourage, entreat, fawn over, federal building, flatter, follow, forum, gallant, go out, go out with, go steady, go together, go with, grovel, hall, hall of justice, high court, homage, importune, incite, ingratiate, invite, judge, judicial, judicial system, justice, justice building, kangaroo court, keep company with, law court, lords and ladies, love, magistrate, magistrate's court, make love to, make overture, make time with, municipal building, palace, pander to, pay addresses to, pay court to, piazza, plaza, please, pop the question, praise, propose, pursue, quadrangle, respects, retinue, risk, royal household, ruler's attendants, run after, seat of judgment, see, seek, seek the hand of, serenade, session, set one's cap, solicit, spark, spoon, staff, street, sue, suit, suite, sweetheart, take out, tempt, train, tribunal, woo, wooing, yard

Antonyms

condemn, deny, displease, disregard, ignore, neglect, offend, refuse, reject, repel, repulse, shun, turn off