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juror

UK/ˈd͡ʒʊəɹə/US/ˈd͡ʒʊɹɚ/
nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,211 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: jurors

A juror is one of the citizens who decide a verdict in court. Twelve jurors, summoned as a juror, a juror was discharged.

Service is a duty rather than a choice in most countries that use juries, and jurors are forbidden to research a case or to discuss it outside the room — a rule that the internet has made much harder to keep. The word comes from swearing an oath.

Definitions of juror

  1. 1nounjurorOne of the citizens who decide a verdict in court.B2+

    “One juror fell ill, so the trial was delayed for a week.”

juror is a person.

Where it comes from

Anglo-Norman jurour comes from jurer, to swear, from Latin iurare. Jury and perjury are relatives.

  1. Latin

    iurator

  2. Old French

    jureor

  3. Anglo-Norman

    jurour

  4. Middle English

    jurour

  5. English, today

    juror

Built from

  • jurer · Old French — to swear

From Middle English jurour, jurrour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman jurour and Old French jureor, from the verb jurer (“to swear”), or possibly from Latin iurator, whence the English doublet a doublet of jurator.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

juror in the wild

  • The size of the jury varies; in criminal cases involving serious felonies there are usually 12 jurors, although Scotland uses 15.

    Petit jury

  • In civil cases many trials require fewer than twelve jurors.

    Petit jury

  • A poll commissioned by the Death Penalty Information Center on June 9, 2007, showed 57% of Americans believed they would qualify to be jurors in capital cases.

    Death-qualified jury

  • The group of potential jurors is first selected from among the community using a reasonably random method.

    Jury selection

  • A panel of jurors is then assigned to a courtroom.

    Jury selection

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.