Hypernyms for "law"

More general terms or categories

administrative law all-or-none law anti-drug law anti-racketeering law antitrust law antitrust legislation Archimedes'' principle Avogadro''s hypothesis Avogadro''s law Benford''s law Bernoulli''s law blue law blue sky law Bose-Einstein statistics Boyle''s law canon law case law Charles''s law civil law commercial law common law constitution contract law corporation law Coulomb''s Law Dalton''s law Dalton''s law of partial pressures distribution law divine law ecclesiastical law equilibrium law European Law Enforcement Organisation Europol exclusion principle Fechner''s law Fermi-Dirac statistics fundamental law gag law Gay-Lussac''s law gendarmerie gendarmery Henry''s law homestead law Hooke''s law Hubble law Hubble''s law international law Islamic law Kepler''s law Kepler''s law of planetary motion Kirchhoff''s laws law merchant law of Archimedes law of averages law of chemical equilibrium law of constant proportion law of definite proportions law of diminishing returns law of effect law of equivalent proportions law of gravitation law of large numbers law of mass action Law of Moses law of motion law of multiple proportions law of nations law of partial pressures law of reciprocal proportions law of the land law of thermodynamics law of volumes Mariotte''s law martial law matrimonial law Mendeleev''s law Mendel''s law mercantile law military law Mosaic law Mounties Mutawa Mutawa''een New Scotland Yard Newton''s law Newton''s law of gravitation Newton''s law of motion Ohm''s law organic law Pascal''s law Pascal''s law of fluid pressures patent law Pauli exclusion principle periodic law Planck''s law Planck''s radiation law poor law posse posse comitatus power law precedent principle principle of relativity prohibition public law Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act RCMP RICO RICO Act Riot Act Royal Canadian Mounted Police rule Schutzstaffel Scotland Yard secret police securities law sharia sharia law shariah shariah law sound law SS statute of limitations statutory law Stevens'' law Stevens'' power law tax law Weber-Fechner law Weber''s law
What are hypernyms?

Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.

Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.