off-licence

1. 1.

   a store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere

   Synonymspackage storeliquor store

   Broadershop

Questions about off-licence

What does off-licence mean?

off-licence means "a store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere".

How many syllables are in off-licence?

off-licence has 3 syllables: of-f-li-cence. The stress falls on "of".

What is another word for off-licence?

Close synonyms include package store, liquor store. 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 off-licence a common word?

off-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.