Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Law One who serves as a member of a jury.
- n. Law One who awaits or is called for service on a jury.
- n. One who serves on a deliberative body analogous to a jury.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who takes or has taken an oath; one who swears; an oath-taker. Compare nonjuror.
- n. One who serves on a jury; a juryman; a person sworn to deliver the truth on the evidence given him concerning any matter in question or on trial. See
jury . - n. The syndic of a gild or trade, elected by the members of a craft to act as arbiter between master and man, examine apprentices, initiate masters, and represent the body of them.
- n. One of a body of men selected to adjudge prizes, etc., at a public exhibition or competition of any kind
Wiktionary
- n. a member of a jury
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Law) A member of a jury; a juryman.
- n. A member of any jury for awarding prizes, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury
Etymologies
- Middle English jurour, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin iūrātor, swearer, from iūrāre, to swear; see jury1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In the film, when 11 jurors realize one juror is "hateful and bigoted," they rise and turn their backs to the man, saying nothing.”
The Washington Post: 'The View' on Bill O'Reilly: 'This is a country full of rage'
“Yet other artists claimed that they are more or less likely to be accepted into a show based on whether a juror is male or female.”
The Huffington Post: Daniel Grant: There's a Lot of Backbiting Among Artists
“If the jury deadlocks 11 – 1 in favor of conviction and one juror is actually unreasonably holding out (which I will assume for the sake of argument), why should a defendant go free?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sixth Circuit Now 0–4 in Habeas Cases This Term
“I believe that in Virginia, when the parties consent to a three person jury, the third juror is selected by the first two.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Challenges of Jurors for Bias, Decided by the Other Jurors
“If the jury deadlocks 11 – 1 in favor of conviction and one juror is actually unreasonably holding out (which I will assume for the sake of argument), why should a defendant gofree?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sixth Circuit Now 0–4 in Habeas Cases This Term
“Watching 'Capitalism: A Love Story' shouldn't disqualify a juror from a case involving Citigroup," Mr. Moore said.”
“As we have mentioned before, being a juror is hard work.”
“Why do I feel like that 12th juror from the old black and white moview around here?”
“Some reasons will appear legitimate - the juror seemed likely to sympathize with the prosecutor because he is studying to be a prosecutor some day, while other reasons will seem more questionable - the juror is short and unattractive and might therefore envy the tall and handsome defendant.”
“The defendant's sister, who testified she called the juror because she was scared of angering him, did not say much beyond "thank you.”
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chained_bear No, it's because juror is a dumb word. See the "30 Rock" episode(s) where they make fun of one of the character's former projects, a film called "The Rural Juror." The running joke is that when anyone says the title, nobody can tell what the hell they're saying. :) (We still laugh about this, months later, in our house.) Oct 6, 2008
bilby There was something on the TV news tonight about the (latest) OJ Simpson case. The American reporter managed to make this word sound like jurrr. Is it an errr of pronunciation? Oct 6, 2008