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jurist

UK/ˈd͡ʒʊəɹ.ɪst/US/ˈd͡ʒəɹ.ɪst/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,329 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: jurists

A jurist is an expert in the law. A distinguished jurist, jurists disagree, the great jurists.

In Britain it means a legal scholar rather than a practising lawyer, while in America it is often used of judges. The word belongs to writing about the law rather than doing it.

Definitions of jurist

  1. 1nounjuristAn expert in the law.C1

    “The famous jurist wrote several books on international law.”

jurist is an expert.

Where it comes from

Middle French juriste comes from Latin ius, meaning law or right.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *h₂yew-

  2. Middle French

    juriste

  3. English, today

    jurist

From Middle French juriste.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

jurist in the wild

  • A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law.

    Jurist

  • Depending on jurisdiction, the term "jurist" can refer to a legal scholar, a judge, or a lawyer.

    Jurist

  • Louis Renault was a French jurist and educator, and the co-winner in 1907 (with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta) of the Nobel Peace Prize.

    Louis Renault (jurist)

  • James Polin Gray is an American jurist and writer.

    Jim Gray (jurist)

  • James Kent was an American jurist, New York legislator, legal scholar, and first Professor of Law at Columbia College.

    James Kent (jurist)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.