- judge, justice, jurist, magistrate - a public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice
--1 is a kind of official, functionary; adjudicator
--1 has particulars:chief justice; Daniel; doge; justice of the peace; justiciar, justiciary; ordinary; praetor, pretor; qadi; recorder; stipendiary, stipendiary magistrate; trial judge; trier; Samson