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INTERNATIONAL LAW

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Dictionary entry overview: What does international law mean?

• INTERNATIONAL LAW (noun)
The noun INTERNATIONAL LAW has 1 sense:

1. the body of laws governing relations between nations

Familiarity information: INTERNATIONAL LAW used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• INTERNATIONAL LAW (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The body of laws governing relations between nations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

international law; law of nations

Hypernyms ("international law" is a kind of...):

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "international law"):

admiralty law; marine law; maritime law (the branch of international law that deals with territorial and international waters or with shipping or with ocean fishery etc.)

Antonym:

civil law (the body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulation)

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