courtroom

American  

[kawrt-room, -room, kohrt-] / ˈkɔrtˌrum, -ˌrʊm, ˈkoʊrt- /

noun

• courtrooms
  plural

1. a room in which the sessions of a law court are held.

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courtroom British  

/ ˈkɔːtˌruːm, -ˌrʊm /

noun

1. a room in which the sittings of a law court are held

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• courtrooms
  plural

Etymology

Origin of courtroom

First recorded in 1670–80; court + room

Example Sentences

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courtroom courtrooms

In some ways, it is similar to a normal criminal trial - the prosecution puts its evidence against the defendant before a judge and jury in a courtroom.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Duterte did not speak during the hearing but waved at the public gallery when the judge had left the courtroom at the end.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

More than 60 people had packed into the courtroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

His family members screamed with delight in the packed courtroom in Valletta, while Caruana Galizia's family wept, the agency said.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

I told my moms the same thing when we were walking out of the courtroom together.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

There is no oak panelling, no green leather-bound legal textbooks like the courtrooms you see on TV dramas.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Four Los Angeles Superior Court judges in courtrooms from Compton to Van Nuys hear cases of veterans charged with state crimes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

And more courtrooms are turning to real-time speech-to-text tools, often to fill in when a human stenographer isn’t available.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

In courtrooms, this played out in the form of trying to block consideration of the racial effects of a policy rather than focusing solely on proving an invidious racist intent.

From Slate ● May 7, 2026

In one of the courtrooms, I met Marvin Stepson.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Related Words

• bench
• courthouse
• tribunal