Noun
- 1. Judges, Book of Judges
- usage: a book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges
Noun
- 1. Judges, Book of Judges
- usage: a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
- 2. judge, justice, jurist, official, functionary, adjudicator
- usage: an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality
Verb
- 1. judge, decide, settle, resolve, adjudicate
- usage: determine the result of (a competition)
- 2. evaluate, pass judgment, judge, think, cogitate, cerebrate
- usage: form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"
- 3. estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge, calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure
- usage: judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"
- 4. pronounce, label, judge, declare, adjudge, hold
- usage: pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"
- 5. judge, adjudicate, try, decide, make up one's mind, determine
- usage: put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of; "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"
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