license

1. 1.

   authorize officially

   “I am licensed to practice law in this state”

   Synonymslicencecertify

   Broaderauthorize

   Narrowerfranchisecharteraccredit

Other forms of license

plural

licenses·

past tense

licensed·

present participle

licensing·

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 license

What does license mean?

license means "a legal document giving official permission to do something". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in license?

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

What is another word for license?

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

license is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 license?

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