Judge

See also: judge

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/
• Homophone: judge
• Rhymes: -ʌdʒ

Proper noun

Judge

1. A surname originating as an occupation.
2. (Christianity) epithet of God or Jesus in his role as supreme arbiter
   • 1763, Charles Wesley, “And am I Born to Die?” (Hymn 59) in Hymns for Children, and Others of Riper Years:

     Wak’d by the trumpet’s sound,
     I from my grave must rise,
     And see the Judge with glory crown’d,
     And see the flaming skies.

3. An unincorporated community in Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States, named after Edward Judge.
4. An unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri, United States, named for a local judge who owned the town site.