DECREE
Dictionary entry overview: What does decree mean?
• DECREE (noun)
The noun DECREE has 1 sense:
1. a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
Familiarity information: DECREE used as a noun is very rare.
• DECREE (verb)
The verb DECREE has 2 senses:
1. issue a decree
2. decide with authority
Familiarity information: DECREE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DECREE (noun)
Meaning:
A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
decree; fiat; edict; rescript; order
Context example:
a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there
Hypernyms ("decree" is a kind of...):
act; enactment (a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "decree"):
consent decree (an agreement between two parties that is sanctioned by the court; for example, a company might agree to stop certain questionable practices without admitting guilt)
bull; papal bull (a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla))
stay (a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted)
ban; prohibition; proscription (a decree that prohibits something)
programma (an edict that has been publicly posted)
judicial separation; legal separation (a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart)
imperial decree (a decree issued by a sovereign ruler)
decree nisi (a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; becomes absolute at some later date)
curfew (an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited)
• DECREE (verb)
Meaning:
Issue a decree
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
The King only can decree
Hypernyms (to "decree" is one way to...):
declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "decree"):
ordain (issue an order)
enact; ordain (order by virtue of superior authority; decree)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Decide with authority
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
decree; rule
Context example:
The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed
Hypernyms (to "decree" is one way to...):
decide; determine; make up one's mind (reach, make, or come to a decision about something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "decree"):
override; overrule; overthrow; overturn; reverse (rule against)
rule in; rule out (include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
