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say it: law
law is a noun meaning "the collection of rules imposed by authority". It is pronounced /ˈlɔ/ — law. It carries 7 recorded senses.
the collection of rules imposed by authority
“civilization presupposes respect for the law”
“the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order”
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
“there is a law against kidnapping”
law
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
“the laws of thermodynamics”
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
“he studied law at Yale”
law
the force of policemen and officers
“the law came looking for him”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for law come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.