jus
1 Americannoun
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jura
plural
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a right.
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law as a system or in the abstract.
noun
noun
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a right, power, or authority
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law in the abstract or as a system, as distinguished from specific enactments
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of jus
From the Latin word jūs law, right
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The menu includes salt-and-pepper chicken skins with sweet-and-sour sauce and something called the Viet Dip, a sandwich served with a little cup of pho jus.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
And for Barrett, that is the rule of jus soli—the idea that if you’re born in a place and governed by that place, you’re a citizen of that place.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
Options range from $19 wagyu oxtail patties to a $48 grilled pork chop served with crab butter, grilled mango and a jus flavored with kuchela, a Trinidadian green-mango relish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
“A dollar, maybe eighty cents. Just the Italian beef jus poured over bread.”
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2025
“He was jus tryin’ get home,” Cork said softly.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
The southern coast, as we have already said, consists of a long narrow strip of argillaceous schist and detritus, with a very steep inclination, and overtopped throughout its length by high cliffs of jura limestone.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
The principal natives are sometimes called sacchus and sometimes jura.
From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by Francis Augustus MacNutt
He now received appeals from some of his devoted caliphs to undertake a fresh campaign, especially from the loyal and chivalrous Ben Salem, who dwelt in the gorges of the Djur jura Mountains.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
In all resolutions relating to the fundamental laws, the organic regulations of the confederation, the jura singulorum and matters of religion, unanimity was required.
From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Mrs. George Horrocks
Nowhere else throughout Scotland could a subject of the King exercise jura regalia.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
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