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international law

international law noun: set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations, serving as a framework for the practice of stable and organized international relations.

Noun

international law (uncountable)

  1. Set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations, serving as a framework for the practice of stable and organized international relations.
    • The country's environmental ministry first set out to use international law to get Russia to pay for the environmental damages caused by the war in 2022, originally planning to file a claim to international courts when the war ended.2025 November 20, Simmone Shah, “Ukraine to Claim $44bn in Climate Damages From Russia. Why War Is So Bad For Emissions”, in TIME, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025

international law meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

international law in Hindi

set of rules applied to the relations between nations
अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय विधि antarrāṣṭrīya vidhi

international law in Tamil

அனைத்து நாடுகள் சட்டம், அனைத்து நாட்டுச் சட்டம், உலக நாடுகள் சட்டம், உலகச் சட்டம், நாட்டிடைச் சட்டம், பன்னாட்டுச் சட்டம்

international law in Urdu

set of rules applied to the relations between nations
بَینَ ٱلْاَقْوامی قَانُون baina l-aqvāmī qānūn

international law in Bengali

set of rules applied to the relations between nations
আন্তর্জাতিক আইন antorjatik ain
More languagesFewer languages
international law in Pashto
نړيوال قانون naṛəywãl qānún
international law in Tagalog
batas-pandaigdig
international law in Arabic
قَانُون دُوَلِيّ qānūn duwaliyy
international law in Malay
undang-undang antarabangsa
international law in Indonesian
hukum internasional
international law in Thai
กฎหมายระหว่างประเทศ gòt-mǎai-rá-wàang-bprà-têet
international law in Vietnamese
luật quốc tế

Questions about international law

What does international law mean?
International law means set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations, serving as a framework for the practice of stable and organized international relations.
What is international law in Hindi?
International law in Hindi is अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय विधि (antarrāṣṭrīya vidhi). See International law meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is international law?
International law is a noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: international law (page history and authors); international law (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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