licence

1. 1.

   authorize officially

   “I am licensed to practice law in this state”

   Synonymslicensecertify

   Broaderauthorize

   Narrowerfranchisecharteraccredit

Other forms of licence

plural

licences·

past tense

licenced·

present participle

licencing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about licence

What does licence mean?

licence means "excessive freedom; lack of due restraint". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in licence?

licence has 2 syllables: li-cence. The stress falls on "li". In IPA it is /ˈlaɪsəns/.

What is another word for licence?

Close synonyms include license, license, license, permit, 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 licence a common word?

licence is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with licence?

1 word rhymes with licence. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.