Word

jurist, n.
(jurists)
freq. cnt. 1

a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations
<noun.person> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

jurist legal expert

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

jurisprudence jurisprudence

semantic pointers

domain of synset (topic)

law, jurisprudence

hypernym

expert

hyponym

mufti

instance hyponym

Bentham, Jeremy Bentham Grotius, Hugo Grotius, Huig de Groot Holmes, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Marshall, John Marshall Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone

a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
<noun.person> freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 1

judge jurist justice

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

judicial judicial judicial judgeship judge adjudicate adjudicate

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

jurisprudence jurisprudence

semantic pointers

hypernym

adjudicator official, functionary

hyponym

alcalde chief justice Daniel doge justiciar, justiciary magistrate ordinary praetor, pretor qadi recorder trial judge trier

instance hyponym

Samson