an official assembly of people authorized to hear judicial cases
a place in which a such a court is held
a rectangular space walled or marked off for playing lawn tennis, squash, basketball, etc
a space enclosed wholly or partly by buildings or circumscribed by a single building
(treated as sing. or pl) the family and retinue or total body of courtiers of a sovereign
the residence or establishment of a sovereign
(treated as sing. or pl) the body of members of an assembly or board with legislative or administrative powers
out of court
without having a court hearing
[Middle English via French cort from Latin cohort-, cohors enclosure, throng, cohort]