- Architecture.
- the main or central room of an ancient Roman house, open to the sky at the center and usually having a pool for the collection of rainwater.
- a courtyard, flanked or surrounded by porticoes, in front of an early or medieval Christian church.
- a skylit central court in a contemporary building or house.
- either of the two upper chambers on each side of the heart that receive blood from the veins and in turn force it into the ventricles.
- the open main court of a Roman house
- a central often glass-roofed hall that extends through several storeys in a building, such as a shopping centre or hotel
- a court in front of an early Christian or medieval church, esp one flanked by colonnades
- a cavity or chamber in the body, esp the upper chamber of each half of the heart
