MAGISTRATE meaning: Official administering law in jurisdiction

We found 42 dictionaries that define the word magistrate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

magistrate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
magistrate: Merriam-Webster
magistrate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
magistrate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
magistrate: Collins English Dictionary
magistrate: Vocabulary.com
Magistrate, magistrate: Wordnik
magistrate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
magistrate: Wiktionary
magistrate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
magistrate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
magistrate: Infoplease Dictionary
Magistrate, magistrate: Dictionary.com
magistrate: Online Etymology Dictionary
magistrate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Magistrate (England and Wales), Magistrate, The Magistrate (miniseries), The Magistrate (play): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Magistrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
magistrate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
magistrate: Rhymezone
magistrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
magistrate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
magistrate: FreeDictionary.org
magistrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
magistrate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (10 matching dictionaries)

magistrate: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
magistrate: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
magistrate: Law.com Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
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THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
magistrate: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

magistrate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Political (No longer online)
Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Magistrate: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

magistrate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Magistrate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (law) A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.
▸ noun:  (historical) A high official of the state or a municipality in ancient Greece or Rome.
▸ noun:  (historical, by extension) A comparable official in medieval or modern institutions.
▸ noun:  (Quebec) A master's degree.

Opposite:

criminal, defendant, lawbreaker, offender, suspect

Types:

judge, justice, more...

Phrases:

police magistrate, Examining magistrate, stipendiary magistrate, federal magistrate, magistrate court, more...

Adjectives:

chief, civil, local, first, supreme, stipendiary, executive, roman, single, additional, worthy

Colors:

royal blue, burgundy, charcoal, emerald, gold, more...

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