Associations to the word «Courthouse»

Wiktionary

COURTHOUSE, noun. A public building housing courts of law.
COURTHOUSE, noun. (US) The public building where most American counties have their county offices.

Dictionary definition

COURTHOUSE, noun. A government building that houses the offices of a county government.
COURTHOUSE, noun. A building that houses judicial courts.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats