Definition of appeal

• earnest or urgent request; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm"
• attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates; "his smile was part of his appeal to her"
• (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower courts judgment or the granting of a new trial; "their appeal was denied in the superior court"