unwritten law



unwritten law

An accepted although informal rule of behavior, as in It's an unwritten law that you lock the gate when you leave the swimming pool. [Mid-1400s]
See also: law

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
SigridSEEG-reed (Finnish)Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Estonian, Finnish (Archaic)
Arif-Arabic, Indonesian, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali
Roshanara-Persian (Archaic)
MartaMAHR-tah (Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech)Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Polish, Czech, Slovak, German, Dutch, Romanian, Slovene, Bulg
Jorginho-Portuguese
Berko-Western African, Akan