international law

1. 1.

   the body of laws governing relations between nations

   Synonymslaw of nations

   Antonymscivil law

   Broaderlaw

   Narrowermaritime law

   law

Questions about international law

What does international law mean?

international law means "the body of laws governing relations between nations".

What is another word for international law?

Close synonyms include law of nations. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of international law?

The recorded antonyms are civil law.

Is international law a common word?

international law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.