driving licence

1. 1.

   a license authorizing the bearer to drive a motor vehicle

   Synonymsdriver's licensedriver's licencedriving license

   Broaderlicense

Questions about driving licence

What does driving licence mean?

driving licence means "a license authorizing the bearer to drive a motor vehicle".

What is another word for driving licence?

Close synonyms include driver's license, driver's licence, driving license. 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 driving licence a common word?

driving 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.