justices
- 1Plural of justice.
A majority of the justices voted to uphold the lower court's ruling.
Several state supreme court justices retired within the same year.
Note
A plural that almost always points to people. The abstract senses of justice, such as fairness, the ideal of impartiality and correctness, rarely need counting. So justices usually means the judges who carry the title, especially on appellate and supreme courts, where justice replaces judge. The title is capitalized before a name (Justice Ruiz) but stays lowercase when used generically: a majority of the justices.
justices is a form of justice
justice, noun: The quality or ideal of being fair, impartial, and morally right, whether in how people are treated or in a particular law, decision, cause, or claim. Full entry
- Forms
- justicejustices plural
- Spelling
- justice → justices: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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