justice
Meaning of justice
noun
- just behaviour or treatment.
a concern for justice, peace, and genuine respect for people
- a judge or magistrate, in particular a judge of the Supreme Court of a country or state.
late Old English iustise ‘administration of the law’, via Old French from Latin justitia, from justus (see just).
Information about justice
- It is a name.
- The plural form of justice is: justices.
- Languages in which justice is used:
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Hyphenation of justice
jus-tice
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- justice is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
justice synonyms
Meaning justness:
Meaning judicature:
Meaning judge:
Meaning Department of Justice:
Meaning impartial and just treatment or behaviour without favouritism or discrimination:
Meaning the quality of being fair and impartial:
Meaning the doctrine that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities:
Meaning equal treatment of all rivals or disputants; fairness:
Meaning the quality of being objective:
Meaning the state of not supporting or helping either side in a conflict, disagreement, etc.; impartiality:
Meaning the quality of knowing and doing what is morally right:
Meaning the condition or quality of being honourable or honest; rectitude:
Meaning behaviour that conforms to accepted standards of morality or respectability:
Meaning the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles:
Meaning the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency:
Meaning the quality of being honest:
Meaning the quality of being morally right or justifiable:
Meaning moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity:
Meaning a lesson that can be derived from a story or experience:
Meaning principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour:
Meaning behaviour showing high moral standards:
Meaning a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behaviour or for a chain of reasoning:
Meaning conformity to conventionally accepted standards of behaviour or morals:
Meaning the ability to be relied on as honest or truthful:
Meaning an apparatus for recording sound, pictures, or data:
Meaning (in England and Wales) the chief executive officer of the Crown in a county, having various administrative and judicial functions:
Meaning a judge (of whom there are two) in the Isle of Man judiciary:
Meaning a person who has taken an oath or who performs a duty on oath, e.g. a juror:
Meaning a substitute, especially a person deputizing for another in a specific role or office:
Meaning a magistrate or mayor in a Spanish, Portuguese, or Latin American town:
Meaning a bird's horny projecting jaws; a bill:
Meaning a local official, in particular the chief magistrate of a town or district in Anglo-Saxon England:
Meaning a municipal officer and magistrate in Scotland:
justice antonyms
Meaning lack of fairness or justice:
Translation of justice
- German: Recht
- Spanish: justicia, juez, magistrado
- French: justice, juge
- Italian: giustizia, giudice
- Portuguese: justiça
Words that rhyme with justice
Tice, tice, Statice, overpratice, statice, Factice, archpractice, counterpractice, dispractice, factice, malpractice, mispractice, nonpractice, outpractice, overpractice, practice, prepractice, repractice, unpractice, poultice, Prentice, appentice, apprentice, coapprentice, entice, intice, pentice, prentice, underprentice, cotice, counternotice, forenotice, notice, prenotice, renotice, Curtice, Myrtice, mortice, Anastice, Anstice, Justice, Rustice, armistice, castice, injustice, interstice, lunistice, postarmistice, solstice, superinjustice
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