LAW DEGREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does law degree mean? 

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

1. degree conferred on someone who successfully completes law school

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAW DEGREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Degree conferred on someone who successfully completes law school

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

academic degree; degree (an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study)

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

Bachelor of Laws; LLB (a three-year law degree)

LLM; Master of Laws (an advanced law degree)

 Context examples 

An advanced law degree generally earned in a course of specialized study in law.

(Master of Law, NCI Thesaurus)