Meaning of judge in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• 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 or similar.

  Example: At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.

• A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.

  Example: She is a good judge of wine.

verb

• To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.

  Example: A higher power will judge you after you are dead.

• To sit in judgment, to act as judge.

  Example: Justices in this country judge without appeal.

• To form an opinion on.

  Example: I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.

• To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.

  Example: We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.

• To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.

  Example: I judge it safe to leave the house once again.

• To form an opinion; to infer.

  Example: I judge from the sky that it might rain later.

• To criticize or label another person or thing.