licence
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
excessive freedom; lack of due restraint
when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near
Types & categories
- liberty hypernym
Related & opposite
- licentious derivation
Sense 2 verb
authorize officially
I am licensed to practice law in this state
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- decertify antonym
- authentication derivation
- permission derivation
- certification derivation
- certificate derivation
- license derivation
- licensee derivation
- licenser derivation
- license derivation
- certificatory derivation
- sanction entails
Sense 3 noun
freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
Types & categories
- liberty hypernym
- poetic license hyponym
Related & opposite
- license derivation
Sense 4 noun
a legal document giving official permission to do something
Types & categories
- legal document hypernym
- building permit hyponym
- driver's license hyponym
- fishing license hyponym
- hunting license hyponym
- learner's permit hyponym
- letter of marque hyponym
- liquor license hyponym
- marriage license hyponym
- occupation license hyponym
- liberty chit hyponym
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | licentious |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | liberty |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | decertify |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | authentication |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | permission |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | certification |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | certificate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | license |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | licensee |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | licenser |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | license |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | certificatory |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | sanction |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | authorize |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | franchise |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | charter |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | accredit |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | license |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | liberty |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | poetic license |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | permit |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | permit |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | license |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | law |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | legal document |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | building permit |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | driver's license |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | fishing license |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | hunting license |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | learner's permit |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | letter of marque |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | liquor license |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | marriage license |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | occupation license |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | liberty chit |