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judge noun [ dʒʌdʒ ]

• a public officer appointed to decide cases in a law court.
• "he is due to appear before a judge and jury on Monday"
Similar: justice, magistrate, His/Her/Your Honour, Law Lord, Lord Justice, the judiciary, recorder, sheriff, deemster, jurat, jurist, surrogate, alcalde, beak, m'lud, reeve, sheriff-depute, bailie,
• a leader having temporary authority in ancient Israel in the period between Joshua and the kings.

judge verb

• form an opinion or conclusion about.
• "a production can be judged according to the canons of aesthetic criticism"
Similar: form the opinion, come to the conclusion, conclude, decide, determine, consider, believe, think, deem, view, deduce, gather, infer, gauge, tell, see, say, estimate, assess, guess, surmise, conjecture, regard as, hold, see as, look on as, take to be, rate as, rank as, class as, count, reckon, figure, guesstimate,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French juge (noun), juger (verb), from Latin judex, judic-, from jus ‘law’ + dicere ‘to say’.


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