courthouse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++court·house /ˈkɔːthaʊs $ ˈkɔːrt-/ noun [countable] American English TBBSCLa building containing law courts and government offices 〔内设法庭和政府办公室的〕法院大楼
Examples from the Corpus
courthouse• Seven years for courthouse killing was excessive.• Its courthouse has never seen a trial, and the prison is used for storing three life jackets.• Computerization should not stop at the courthouse steps.• I come away from the courthouse, brushing slowly through the streets, gazing at Liberty's and the Haunch of Venison Avenue.• I could see the Emporium, the two churches, the dull gold dome of the courthouse.• They sat at the lunch counter in Shraders Pharmacy on the courthouse square.• James Dixon of Houston led about 25 sign-carrying protesters outside the courthouse.court·house nounChineseSyllable
Corpus offices government a containing and building courts law
courthouse
court‧house /ˈkɔːthaʊs $ ˈkɔːrt-/
noun [countable] American English
a building containing law courts and government offices
court‧house /ˈkɔːthaʊs $ ˈkɔːrt-/
noun [countable] American Englisha building containing law courts and government offices
especially
All these words can be used to refer to a place where legal trials take place. Court and( court of law usually refer to the actual room where cases are judged.Courtroom is also used for this.Law court ( is more often used to refer to the building.BrE 以上各词均可指法庭或法院。court 和 court of law（正式说法）通常指法庭、审判室，courtroom 亦用于此义。law court（英式英语）多指法院这座建筑物 ：◆ The prison is opposite the law court. 监狱在法院对面。 Courthouse is used for this inNAmE 美式英语用 courthouse 表达此义。