Definition for: law

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English

Pronunciation

• AHD: lô
• IPA: /lɔː/
• SAMPA: / lO: /

Rhymes: -ɔː

Homophones

• lore ( in non-rhotic accents )

Noun

law ( countable and uncountable; plural laws )

1. A written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and the appropriate consequences thereof. Laws are usually associated with mores.
2. ( uncountable ) The body of rules issued by the legislative authority.
3. ( uncountable ) The body of rules and standards to be applied by courts and similar authorities
4. A one-sided contract.
5. A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature.

   Newton and Einstein understood the law of gravitation in very different ways.

6. ( mathematics ) A statement that is true under specified conditions.
7. A category of English "common law" petitions that request monetary relief, as opposed to relief in forms other than a monetary judgment; compare to "equity".
8. ( cricket ) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC.
9. ( slang ) ( uncountable ) The police.

   Here comes the law — run!

Synonyms

• • ( observed physical law ): theorem
  • ( in mathematics ): theorem

Translations

A written or understood rule

The body of rules from the legislative authority

The body of rules and standards to be applied by courts

one-sided contract

observed physical behavior

in mathematics

a category of English "common law"

in cricket

slang: the police

• Amuzgo : lê
• Arabic : (حُكْم (ج أحْكام
• Bulgarian : закон m .
• Catalan : llei f
• Chinese : 法, 律, 法律, 法令, 法則 / 法则, 法規 / 法规
• Czech : právo, zákon
• Estonian : seadus
• Hungarian : törvény
• Indonesian : hukum, peraturan, tata-tertib
• Japanese : 法則 (ほうそく, hōsoku), 法律 (ほうりつ, hōritsu)
• Korean : 법 [法] (beop), 법률 [法律] (beopryul), 법칙 [法則] (beopchik)
• Persian : قانون (ghaanoon)
• Romanian : lege f
• Turkish : hukuk

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Legal terms

Other Translations for "law"

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Sign Language Spelling
Morse Code		law
Hex		6c e1 77
Pig Latin		awlay

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