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constitutional court

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

a high court whose jurisdiction is focused on constitutional law or constitutional issues, such as the review of the constitutionality of laws, draft laws, political and bureaucratic decisions, acts of political parties, etc.

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  • Armenian: սահմանադրական դատարան (sahmanadrakan dataran) — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Armenian: ՍԴ — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Bulgarian: конституционен съд (konstitucionen sǎd) — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Catalan: tribunal constitucional — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Chinese Mandarin: 憲法法院 /宪法法院 (xiànfǎ fǎyuàn) — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Czech: ústavní soud — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Dutch: constitutioneel hof — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Esperanto: konstitucia juĝejo — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Faroese: stýrisskipanarrættur — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Faroese: grundlógarrættur — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Faroese: stýrisskipanardómstólur — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Faroese: grundlógardómstólur — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Finnish: perustuslakituomioistuin — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Finnish: perustuslakioikeus — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • French: cour constitutionnelle — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Georgian: საკონსტიტუციო სასამართლო (saḳonsṭiṭucio sasamartlo) — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • German: Verfassungsgericht — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Greek: συνταγματικό δικαστήριο (syntagmatikó dikastírio) — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Hindi: संविधानी अदालत (samvidhānī adālat) — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Hungarian: alkotmánybíróság — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Indonesian: mahkamah konstitusi — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Italian: corte costituzionale — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Japanese: 憲法裁判所 (kenpō saibansho) — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Korean: 헌법재판소 (heonbeop jaepanso) — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Lao: ສານລັດຖະທໍາມະນູນ (sān lat tha tham ma nūn) — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Nepali: संवैधानिक अदालत (samvaidhānik adālat) — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Polish: sąd konstytucyjny — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Portuguese: tribunal constitucional — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Romanian: curtea constituțională — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Russian: конституционный суд (konstitucionnyj sud) — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Spanish: tribunal constitucional — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Swahili: mahakama ya kikatiba — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Swedish: författningsdomstol — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Thai: ศาลรัฐธรรมนูญ (sǎan-rát-tà-tam-má-nuun) — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Turkish: anayasa mahkemesi — court dealing with constitutional law or issues
  • Ukrainian: конституці́́йний суд (konstytucí́jnyj sud) — court dealing with constitutional law or issues