a public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a law court
person who arbitrates
Cases of word usage
1) to judge the value, worth, quality of (something) (appraise)
2) to consider, judge (it / something) to be (the kind of condition mentioned) (deem)
3) the state of judging or being judged; a decision of a judge or court (judgment)
4) of, by, a court of justice of a judge (judicial)
5) an officer acting as a judge in the lowest courts; Justice of the Peace (magistrate)
6) to judge (a person, measurement etc) wrongly; form a wrong opinion of (a person, thing) (misjudge)
7) quick to judge and understand (perspicacious)
8) strongest; a decision made by a person in authority, e.g. a judge (ruling)
9) (a statement by judge etc of) a punishment; a set of words used to form a statement, question, command etc and, when written, beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark) (sentence)
10) (an instance of) testing, trying, proving; (an instance of) examination in a law court before a judge (and jury) (trial)