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INTERNATIONAL LAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The body of laws governing relations between nations
Synonyms:
international law; law of nations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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)
