Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun john_marshall

1 sense of john marshall

Sense 1
Marshall, John Marshall -- (United States jurist; as chief justice of the Supreme Court he established the principles of United States constitutional law (1755-1835))
       INSTANCE OF=> jurist, legal expert -- (a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations)
       INSTANCE OF=> chief justice -- (the judge who presides over a supreme court)