The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - judge n.

1) justice, magistrate, jurist, Isle of Man deemster or dempster, Slang Brit beak: The judge demanded order in the court. 2) arbitrator, arbiter, umpire, referee, adjudicator, judicator, mediator, moderator: She served as a judge at Crufts dog show last year. 3) connoisseur, expert, authority, arbiter, appraiser, evaluator, reviewer, critic, arbiter elegantiarum or elegantiae: Let me be the judge of which work I do best. --v. 4) adjudicate, adjudge, arbitrate, decide, find, conclude, settle, determine, decree, pass judgement, deem, rule, pronounce or pass sentence: Do you think the jury will judge in Claus's favour? 5 assess, evaluate, appraise, estimate, rate, value, weigh, measure, review, consider, size up, appreciate: A ballistics expert is required to judge this evidence. 6) referee, umpire, mediate, moderate, arbitrate: Mr Farnsworth agreed to judge the essay competition. 7) believe, suspect, think, consider, suppose, guess, conjecture, surmise, conclude, infer: Palaeontologists judge the age of the specimens to be 400 million years.