law

/lɔː/

意味: 法、法律

例文: Chair-kun teaches forest law to young owls.
　　  チェアくんは若いフクロウたちに森の法律を教えている。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: law enforcement(法執行), law firm(法律事務所), law school(法科大学院)

定義: 法律や規則のことです。社会や国が人々の行動を制御し、秩序を保つために作られたルールです。法律は政府や議会によって作られ、裁判所で適用されます。法律を守ることは、社会の一員としての義務です。

lawは約3,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the collection of rules imposed by authority
Noun: legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
Noun: a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
Noun: a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
Noun: the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
Noun: the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
Noun: the force of policemen and officers

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The law requires all drivers to wear seat belts.(法律はすべての運転手にシートベルト着用を義務付けています。)
She studies law at the university.(彼女は大学で法律を学んでいます。)
Breaking the law can lead to serious consequences.(法律を破ると重大な結果を招くことがあります。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: civilization presupposes respect for the law
Noun: the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order
Noun: there is a law against kidnapping
Noun: the laws of thermodynamics
Noun: he studied law at Yale
Noun: the law came looking for him

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): constabulary, jurisprudence, law, law of nature, legal philosophy, natural law, police, police force, practice of law

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): collection, concept, force, law enforcement agency, learned profession, legal document, philosophy

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abstraction, acquittance, act, aesthetics, affidavit, agglomeration, ana, armamentarium, arraignment, art collection, articles of incorporation, asia, assignment, assortment, aviation, axiology, backlog, batch, battery, bill, biota, block, book, bottle collection, brief, bunch, bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms, category, central america, class, coin collection, collage, combination, conceptualization, congregation, content, conveyance, convoy, corpus, criminal investigation command, crop, data, debenture, deed, defense, derivative instrument, dialectic, drug enforcement administration, ensemble, epistemology, ethics, etiology, europe, exhibition, fact, fauna, federal bureau of investigation, federal bureau of prisons, federal judiciary, federal law enforcement training center, financial crimes enforcement network, findings, flagging, fleet, flinders, free world, galaxy, generally accepted accounting principles, gimmickry, guerrilla force, hand, herbarium, hit parade, hypothesis, impeachment, indictment, job lot, judaica, jurisprudence, kludge, law, letters of administration, letters testamentary, lexicalized concept, library, license, line personnel, living will, logic, long suit, mail, management personnel, mandate, manifest, mass, medicine, menagerie, metaphysics, military, military personnel, military police, military service, mythology, national institute of justice, negotiable instrument, north america, notion, nuclear club, oort cloud, opinion, pack, package, pantheon, paramilitary, part, passport, patent, patrol, petting zoo, pharmacopoeia, pile, planting, police, population, power of attorney, procession, property, prosecution, quantity, rank and file, repertoire, repertory, rogue’s gallery, rule, security, security force, set, ship’s papers, signage, smithereens, south america, staff, stamp collection, statuary, string, sum, tax return, tenantry, theology, third world, traffic, transcendentalism, treasure, treasure trove, trinketry, troponymy, trust deed, united states marshals service, vegetation, victoriana, wardrobe, whole, will, work force, working papers, writ, written agreement

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): administrative law, all-or-none law, anti-drug law, anti-racketeering law, antitrust legislation, archimedes’ principle, avogadro’s law, benford’s law, bernoulli’s law, blue law, blue sky law, bose-einstein statistics, boyle’s law, canon law, civil law, common law, contract law, corporation law, coulomb’s law, dalton’s law, distribution law, divine law, equilibrium law, europol, fechner’s law, fermi-dirac statistics, fundamental law, gag law, gay-lussac’s law, gendarmerie, henry’s law, homestead law, hooke’s law, hubble’s law, international law, kepler’s law, kirchhoff’s laws, law of averages, law of constant proportion, law of diminishing returns, law of effect, law of equivalent proportions, law of gravitation, law of mass action, law of multiple proportions, law of the land, law of thermodynamics, martial law, matrimonial law, mendel’s law, mercantile law, military law, mosaic law, mutawa’een, newton’s law of motion, ohm’s law, pascal’s law, patent law, pauli exclusion principle, periodic law, planck’s law, planck’s radiation law, poor law, posse, principle, principle of relativity, prohibition, public law, riot act, royal canadian mounted police, schutzstaffel, scotland yard, secret police, securities law, shariah, sound law, statute of limitations, statutory law, stevens’ law, tax law, weber’s law

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: jurisprudential, jurist, lawyer, police

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: education, law

Usage Category: informal

Usage Context: education

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検4級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: trust