judge
/d͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/ noun B1- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar; referee. · At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.
- A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion. · She is a good judge of wine.· They say he is a poor judge of character considering all the unreliable friends he has made.
- A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
Plural judges
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“That’s the judge,” she said to herself, “because of his great wig.”
The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown over the wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he did it,) he did not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly not becoming.
His ship has just been scuttled, and he’s too good a judge of the value of money to let drown.
They were generally shrewd judges of men; and thought better of their own judgment than they did of useless conventions.
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