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judge
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- pronunciation:
- juhj
- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
A judge is a lawyer with a lot of knowledge and experience. A judge is the person who is in control in a court of law. A judge's job is to hear what is presented in the court and make decisions about what is right or wrong according to the law. Sometimes a judge decides if a person is guilty of a crime or not guilty. A judge also decides how people will be punished if they did something wrong.
The judge decided that the young man would not go to jail. Instead, he would do work planting trees and flowers in the city park for six months.
- synonyms:
- justice
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| definition 2: |
A judge is a person who decides who wins a contest or competition.
The judge for the school's art contest was our art teacher.- similar words:
- referee, umpire
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| definition 3: |
Sometimes we call a person a judge when they know enough about something to give a valuable opinion or suggestion.
A veterinarian is the best judge of whether a dog is healthy or not.- synonyms:
- critic, evaluator
- similar words:
- authority, expert
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
judges, judging, judged |
| definition 1: |
When a court of law judges a person or a case, the court makes a decision about guilt or innocence.
Most people were happy about how the court judged the case, but others were very upset.- synonyms:
- try
- similar words:
- decide, hear, sentence
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| definition 2: |
When someone judges a contest, they decide who is the winner of the contest.
The mayor judged each bowl of chili at the town's chili cooking contest.- synonyms:
- conclude, estimate, evaluate, gauge
- similar words:
- decide, determine, examine, think, value, weigh
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| definition 3: |
When you judge something like a book or movie, you decide what you think about it. You decide things like whether it is good or bad or if you like it or not.
Our teacher said we shouldn't judge a book by its cover because a book with a boring cover might be really interesting if we read it.- similar words:
- criticize, decide, estimate, evaluate
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| related words: |
figure, find, imagine, mark, rate, regard, score, suppose, try, view |
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