license plate

1. 1.

   a plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number

   Synonymsnumberplate

   Broaderplate

Questions about license plate

What does license plate mean?

license plate means "a plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number".

What is another word for license plate?

Close synonyms include numberplate. 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 plate a common word?

license plate 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.