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TREATY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A written agreement between two states or sovereigns
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("treaty" is a kind of...):
written agreement (a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "treaty"):
alliance (a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim)
commercial treaty (a treaty governing commerce between two or more nations)
pacification; peace; peace treaty (a treaty to cease hostilities)
convention ((diplomacy) an international agreement)
Instance hyponyms:
North Atlantic Treaty (the treaty signed in 1949 by 12 countries that established NATO)
SALT I (the first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
SALT II (the second treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
Context examples:
“I don’t see how that could be. There is a definite treaty there. She could never recover from such a humiliation.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When their treaty was finished, wherein I did them several good offices by the credit I now had, or at least appeared to have, at court, their excellencies, who were privately told how much I had been their friend, made me a visit in form.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And lest you should take it into that head of yours, he went on, that you was included in the treaty, here's the last word that was said: 'How many are you,' says I, 'to leave?'
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The treaty will cease to be secret in a few months.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He called them all the fools and dolts you can imagine, said it was necessary I should talk to the doctor, fluttered the chart in their faces, asked them if they could afford to break the treaty the very day they were bound a-treasure-hunting.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Some one, then, was in that room where my precious treaty lay upon the table.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then take the treaty and lock it up there.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He would always come back to his lost treaty, wondering, guessing, speculating, as to what Holmes was doing, what steps Lord Holdhurst was taking, what news we should have in the morning.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We can hardly suppose, Mr. Holmes, that the thief took the treaty in order to frame it and hang it up.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If the treaty had reached, let us say, the French or Russian Foreign Office, you would expect to hear of it?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
