legal proceeding legal principle • legal profession · · · Info · Definitions · Synonyms · Characters · · legal proceeding · · Text Common · · Latin · · Scripts 16 · · Length 5 · · Syllables Definitions · · · (noun) (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked. Synonyms: proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings. · · Noun Definition 1 Synonyms · · · proceeding · · Synonym 1 proceedings · · Synonym 2 Characters · · space U+0020 a latin small letter a U+0061 c latin small letter c U+0063 d latin small letter d U+0064 e latin small letter e U+0065 g latin small letter g U+0067 i latin small letter i U+0069 l latin small letter l U+006C n latin small letter n U+006E o latin small letter o U+006F p latin small letter p U+0070 r latin small letter r U+0072