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lawbook

lawbook noun: a book in which laws are codified.

Noun

lawbook (plural lawbooks)

  1. A book in which laws are codified.
    • At last, in 1968, the hated Paragraph 175 [which outlawed sodomy] was removed from the lawbooks after almost a century of struggle since its inception in 1871--but only in the GDR.2004 November 4, Leslie Feinberg, “Same-sex rights in East Germany: Legal and material progress”, in Workers World
  2. A textbook on some aspect of law.

Forms of lawbook

plurallawbooks
alternative formlaw-book
alternative formlaw book

Origin of lawbook

Perhaps from Middle English *lawe-bok, from Old Norse lǫgbók (“lawbook”), otherwise, from law + book. Compare Middle English laȝheboc.

Questions about lawbook

What does lawbook mean?
Lawbook means a book in which laws are codified.
What part of speech is lawbook?
Lawbook is a noun.
What is the plural of lawbook?
The plural of lawbook is lawbooks.

Words near lawbook in the dictionary

  1. Lawaan I
  2. Lawaan II
  3. Lawal
  4. Lawals
  5. Lawanda
  6. lawbook
  7. lawbooks
  8. lawbot
  9. lawbots
  10. lawbreaker
  11. lawbreakers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lawbook (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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