rule

About 86.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A regulation, law, guideline.

   All participants must adhere to the rules.

2. noun A regulating principle.
3. noun The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
4. noun A normal condition or state of affairs.

   My rule is to rise at six o'clock.

5. noun Conduct; behaviour.
6. noun An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
7. noun A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.

   a rule for extracting the cube root

8. noun A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.

Similar words

decree regulation govern convention prescript principle dominate normal pattern reign

Often followed by

of is in that and for the out to

Word family

against the rules break the rules breaking the rules breaks the rules broke the rules made it a rule make it a rule makes it a rule making it a rule ruled