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LAW OF NATIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does law of nations mean? 

LAW OF NATIONS (noun)
  The noun LAW OF NATIONS has 1 sense:

1. the body of laws governing relations between nationsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LAW OF NATIONS (noun)


Sense 1

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 ("law of nations" 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 "law of nations"):

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.)


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