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say it: lawz
laws is a noun meaning "the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit". It is pronounced /ˈlɔz/ — lawz. It carries one recorded sense.
the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit
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 laws 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.