Noun

• S: (n) law, jurisprudence (the collection of rules imposed by authority) "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
• S: (n) law (legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity) "there is a law against kidnapping"
• S: (n) law, natural law (a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society)
• S: (n) law, law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature) "the laws of thermodynamics"
• S: (n) jurisprudence, law, legal philosophy (the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)
• S: (n) humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)) "the college of arts and sciences"
• S: (n) discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick (a branch of knowledge) "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
• S: (n) knowledge domain, knowledge base, domain (the content of a particular field of knowledge)
• S: (n) content, cognitive content, mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)
• S: (n) cognition, knowledge, noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)
• S: (n) psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) law, practice of law (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system) "he studied law at Yale"
• S: (n) police, police force, constabulary, law (the force of policemen and officers) "the law came looking for him"