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Pronunciation
AHD: lô
IPA: /l��/
SAMPA: /<tt>lO:</tt>/
audio|en-us-law.ogg|Audio (US)
audio|en-uk-law.ogg|Audio (UK)
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��|-��

Homophones
lore (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology

Old English lagu.

Noun
en-noun|laws|-

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

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

1. <!--DefF-->mathematics A statement that is true under specified conditions.
2. <!--DefG--> 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".
3. <!--DefH-->cricket One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC.
4. <!--DefI-->slang (uncountable) The police.

#: Here comes the law � run!

Synonyms
<!--DefD-->*(observed physical law): theorem
<!--DefG-->*(in mathematics): theorem

Translations

trans-top|A written or understood rule
ttbc|Arabic: ARchar|�ا��� (qanoon) m, ARchar|شر�عة (shari'a) m.
Albanian: ligj m
Catalan: llei f
Croatian: zakon 'm
Czech: zákon m
Danish: lov c
Dutch: wet#Dutch|wet m
Esperanto: le�o
Estonian: seadus
Ewe: se
Finnish: laki
French: loi f
German: Gesetz n
Hebrew: ��� m, ��ק m
Hungarian: törvény
Italian: legge f
Japanese: � (��, h�)
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Korean: � [�] (beop)
Kurdish: qanûn f, zagon f, yasa f
Latin: lex f
Malayalam: നിയമ� (niyamam)
Norwegian lov m
Old English: dom|d�m
Persian: FAchar|�ا��� (ghaanoon)
Polish: prawo n, regu�a f, zasada f
Romanian: lege f
Portuguese: lei f
Russian: закон (zakón) m, п�авило (právilo) n
Sardinian (Campidanese): lei f
Serbian: zakon, pravilo
Slovene: zakon m
Spanish: ley f
Swedish: regel c
Telugu: నియమమ� (niyamamu)
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trans-top|slang: the police
Danish: loven (definite)
Finnish: kytät (plural)
German: Gesetz n
trans-mid
Norwegian loven
Portuguese lei f
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ttbc|Amuzgo: lê
ttbc|Bulgarian: закон m
ttbc|Catalan: llei f
ttbc|Chinese: �, �, ��, �令, �� / ��, �� / ��
ttbc|Hungarian: törvény
ttbc|Indonesian: hukum, atur|peraturan, tata-tertib
ttbc|Persian: FAchar|�ا��� (ghaanoon)
ttbc|Romanian: lege f''
ttbc|Turkish: hukuk

Derived terms

above the law
against the law
a law unto oneself
Ampère's law|Ampère�s law
Avogadro's law|Avogadro�s law
Beer-Lambert law
Boyle's law|Boyle�s law
bylaw
canon law
Charles' law|Charles� law
civil law
common law
contract law
corn laws
Coulomb's law|Coulomb�s law
criminal law
de Morgan's laws|de Morgan�s laws
dumb law
employment law
family law
Faraday's law|Faraday�s laws
federal law
feudal law
Fourier's law|Fourier�s law
Gauss's law|Gauss�s law
Graham's law|Graham�s law
Gresham's law|Gresham�s law
Henry's law|Henry�s law
Hooke's law|Hooke�s law
Hubble's law|Hubble�s law
international law
into law
Kepler's laws of planetary motion|Kepler�s laws of planetary motion
Kerchoff's laws|Kerchoff�s laws
law and order
mid
lawgiver
law lord
lawmaker, law-maker
law of cosines
law of large numbers<!--mathematics-->
law of sines
law of small numbers<!--mathematics-->
law of tangents
lay down the law
long arm of the law
lynch law
martial law
Moore's law|Moore�s law
Murphy's law
natural law
Newton's law of cooling|Newton�s law of cooling
Newton's law of gravitation|Newton�s law of gravitation
Newton's laws of motion|Newton�s laws of motion
Ohm's law|Ohm�s law
physical law
Poiseuille's law|Poiseuille�s law
possession is nine points of the law
property law
Roman law
statuate (statute)+law=statuate law (US)
state law
statute law (Commonwealth English)
Stefan-Boltzmann law
Stokes' law|Stokes� law
sus law
take the law into one's own hands|take the law into one�s own hands
three laws of robotics
unwritten law
Zipf's law|Zipf�s law

See also

Appendix:Legal terms

Category:1000 English basic words
Category:Law

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