verdict

nouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈvɜː.dɪkt//
Canada//ˈvɝ.dɪkt//
Australia//ˈvɜː.dɪkt//
New Zealand//ˈvøː.dəkt//
//ˈvɜɹ.dɪt//

A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

noun

1
A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
guilty verdict, not guilty verdict, final verdict
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
I hope the court overturns his verdict.
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
2
An opinion or judgement.
a “not out” verdict from the umpire
We've reached a verdict on your proposal.

Etymology

From Middle English verdit, from Anglo-Norman verdit (> Medieval Latin veredictum), from veir (“true”) + dit (“saying”); possibly a calque of a Germanic term such as Old English sōþword, sōþsprǣċ, sōþspell, sōþsagu, or sōþcwide, all meaning "true story, statement of truth, account, history". Doublet of veredictum.

Forms

plural: verdicts

vera · A skin (rolling paper for cigarettes).Vera · A female given name from Russian.verbal · Of or relating to words.

verdict · A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

verge · A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.Verge · A surname.verified · Subject to positive verification.

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