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/ˈkɔːt/ · noun
An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley..
The girls were playing in the court.
All round the cool green courts there ran a row / Of cloisters, branched like mighty woods, / Echoing all night to that sonorous flow / Of spouted fountain floods.
Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court.
No solace could her paramour entreat / Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance.
I went to make court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle at their house in Clerkenwell.
The local sports club has six tennis courts and two squash courts.
The shuttlecock landed outside the court.
By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
Use court when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Court means An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley..
Common synonyms include entice, allure, arrest, attract.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The girls were playing in the court.
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