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Urteil — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • doom noun A terrible fate that seems certain and impossible to avoid, especially death or destruction.
  • judgment noun The ability to make sensible decisions; good sense.
  • sentence noun A group of words that forms a complete grammatical statement, usually with a subject and a verb.
  • verdict noun A jury's or judge's formal decision on a case.

Senses

Urteil is used for these senses in English:

  • doom (countable, obsolete) A judgment or decision.
  • doom (countable, obsolete) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
  • judgment (legal) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
  • judgment (theology) The final award; the last sentence.
  • sentence (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. [from 14th c.]
  • sentence A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  • sentence (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation. [from 15th c.]
  • verdict (law) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

doom — full definition

  1. noun A terrible fate that seems certain and impossible to avoid, especially death or destruction.
  2. verb To condemn someone or something to a certain, usually terrible, fate.

judgment — full definition

  1. noun The ability to make sensible decisions; good sense.
  2. noun An opinion or conclusion reached after consideration.
  3. noun A formal decision made by a court.

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