Word Meanings - UMPIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement. Blackstone. Syn. -- Judge; arbitrator; referee. See Judge. (more info) uneven), fr. OF. nomper uneven, F. non-pair; hence

Additional info about word: UMPIRE

A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement. Blackstone. Syn. -- Judge; arbitrator; referee. See Judge. (more info) uneven), fr. OF. nomper uneven, F. non-pair; hence the meaning, uneven, i. e., third person; non not + OF. per even, equal, peer, F. 1. A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed. A man, in questions of this kind, is able to be a skillful umpire between himself and others. Barrow.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UMPIRE)

• Arbiter
• Arbitrator
• judge
• umpire
• moderator
• director
• referee
• adjudicator
• Judge
• Justice
• magistrate
• arbitrator
• critic
• connoisseur
• authority
• arbiter
• Referee
• Umpire

Related words: (words related to UMPIRE)

• CRITICISER
  One who criticises; a critic.
• CONNOISSEUR
  One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." Fairholt. (more
• CRITICALLY
  1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
• UMPIRESHIP
  Umpirage; arbitrament. Jewel.
• CRITICASTER
  A contemptible or vicious critic. The rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules, who decompose into criticasters. Swinburne.
• CRITIC
  1. One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer. The opininon of the most skillful critics was,
• MODERATOR
  1. One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies. Sir W. Raleigh. Angling was ... a moderator of passions. Walton. 2. The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare
• JUDGER
  One who judges. Sir K. Digby.
• DIRECTORY
  Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
• JUSTICESHIP
  The office or dignity of a justice. Holland.
• ARBITRATOR
  1. A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration. 2. One who has the power of deciding or prescribing without control; a ruler; a governor. Though Heaven be shut,
• REFEREE
  One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it. Syn. -- Judge; arbitrator; umpire. See Judge.
• DIRECTORSHIP
  The condition or office of a director; directorate.
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• MODERATORSHIP
  The office of a moderator.
• CRITICALNESS
  1. The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time. 2. Accuracy in examination or decision; exactness.
• DIRECTORIAL
  1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence
• UMPIRE
  A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement. Blackstone. Syn. -- Judge; arbitrator; referee. See Judge. (more info) uneven), fr. OF. nomper uneven, F. non-pair; hence
• JUDGE
  A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose. The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length,
• JUDGESHIP
  The office of a judge.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• ONIROCRITIC
  See ONEIROCRITIC
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• FOREJUDGER
  A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
• ACRITICAL
  Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.
• HYPERCRITICISM
  Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• ECCRITIC
  A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.
• ABJUDGE
  To take away by judicial decision.
• REJUDGE
  To judge again; to re Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace. Pope.
• ILL-JUDGED
  Not well judged; unwise.