driver's licence

1. 1.

   a license authorizing the bearer to drive a motor vehicle

   Synonymsdriver's licensedriving licensedriving licence

   Broaderlicense

Questions about driver's licence

What does driver's licence mean?

driver's licence means "a license authorizing the bearer to drive a motor vehicle".

What is another word for driver's licence?

Close synonyms include driver's license, driving license, driving licence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is driver's licence a common word?

driver's licence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.