letters of marque

Questions about letters of marque

What is another word for letters of marque?

It depends which letters of marque you mean. In the sense “a license to a private citizen to seize property of another nation”, the synonyms are letter of marque, letter of mark and reprisal. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of letters of marque?

WordNet records no antonym for letters of marque. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for letters of marque come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of letters of marque

• Full entry for letters of marqueAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for letters of marqueWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.