• IPA: /ˈvɝ.dɪkt/

verdict (plural verdicts)

1. (legal) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

   The jury returned a “not guilty” verdict.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:

     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

• French: verdict
• German: Gerichtsurteil
• Italian: verdetto
• Portuguese: veredito
• Russian: пригово́р
• Spanish: veredicto, fallo

• German: Urteil
• Russian: сужде́ние
• Spanish: fallo