COURTHOUSE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Courthouse

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/kˈɔrthˌaʊs/ Listen

noun

Courthouse n.

A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings. (U.S.)

A county town; so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States. "Providence, the county town of Fairfax, is unknown by that name, and passes as Fairfax Court House."

See images of 'Courthouse'

Etymology of 'Courthouse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Courthouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... which were in some cases distributed by lot, and this fact may perhaps have originated the word lot as applied to land. A large tract near the centre of the town was long held in common by forty associates, the entrance to which was behind the site of the former Courthouse, now occupied by the Insurance Office. Before many years had passed this little town lost in some degree its peaceful reputation, and became a centre of operations during King Philip's war, many bodies of armed men being sent out ...

— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 • Various

... of March, 1797, Washington went to the inauguration of his successor as President of the United States. The Federal Government was sitting in Philadelphia at that time and Congress held sessions in the courthouse on the corner of Sixth and ...

— Heroes Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie

... yet enmity between the mountaineers of Pigeon and the mountaineers over Pine Mountain, who were jealous and scornful of any signs of the foreign influence but recently come into the hills. The meeting-house, courthouse, and the schoolhouse were yet favorite places for fights among the mountaineers. There was yet no reverence at all for Christmas, and the same vandals might yet regard a Christmas tree as an imported ...

— In Happy Valley • John Fox

... utmost forbearance, countering the adage that "forbearance is not acquittance." He was given the occasion to show how he was neighborly when the turn came. A client of his was long deferring settlement when the lawyer met him by chance on the courthouse ...

— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams

... away for litter and bedding. By the end of July the forest beneath the oaks will be covered with a carpet of stuff as combustible as tinder. Let us but fire it at Newnham, Littledean, Blakeney, Coleford, and at Speech by the courthouse, and we shall lay tens of thousands of oaks in blackened ruin. Philip of Spain has but to scatter the present small navy of England, for no more ships can be built, and there will be nothing to oppose ...

— Sea-Dogs All! - A Tale of Forest and Sea • Tom Bevan

More quotes...