licence
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈlaɪ.səns/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈlɑe.səns/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈlaɪsəns/, [ˈlɑe̯.səns]
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: li‧cence
Noun
editlicence (countable and uncountable, plural licences)
- UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore standard spelling of license.
- 1944, The Labour Gazette, volume 44, page 720:
- In some areas they have attempted to decasualize certain types of employment and to control street-trading by a local licensing system requiring juveniles to obtain their licences through the committees.
- 2017, Allison Sherman, Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Serlio criticises the artistic licence taken by both ancient and contemporary architects, here specifically related to the confusion created by the rich decoration of the arch–in his illustrations, he stripped the monument of most of its beautifully […]
Derived terms
edit- artistic licence
- driver licence
- driver's licence
- driving licence
- firearms licence
- fly without a licence
- free on license
- gun licence
- high licence
- licenced
- licencee
- licence laundering
- licenceless
- licencelike
- licence plate
- licence to crenellate
- licence to print money
- licentiate
- licentious
- licentiously
- licentiousness
- liquor licence
- multi-licence
- multilicence
- off-licence
- off licence
- pen licence
- poetic licence
- public licence
- road fund licence
- special licence
- sublicence, sub-licence
Translations
editlicense — see license
Verb
editlicence (third-person singular simple present licences, present participle licencing, simple past and past participle licenced)
- (UK, Canada, South Africa, nonstandard) Misspelling of license.
Usage notes
edit- In British English, Canadian English, Irish English, Australian English, South African English, and New Zealand English the noun is spelled licence and the verb is license.
- The spelling licence is not used for either part of speech in the United States.
Translations
editlicense — see license
Czech
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editlicence f
Declension
editFurther reading
edit- “licence”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “licence”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French licence, borrowed from Latin licentia.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlicence f (plural licences)
- licence
- permit, certificate
- (education) bachelor's degree (three-year long)
- Synonym: (Belgium) bachelier
- (somewhat archaic) licence: excessive or undue freedom or liberty
- 1789 October 21, Assemblée nationale [National Assembly], Décret du 21 octobre 1789 sur les attroupements [Decree of 21 October 1789 regarding mobs][1], Paris, page 475:
- L'Assemblée nationale, considérant que la liberté affermit les empires, mais que la licence les détruit,... a décrété la présente loi martiale:
- The National Assembly, considering that liberty strengthens the empires, but licence destroys them,... has decreed the present martial law:
- 1791, Louis XVI, “Message du roi à l'Assemblée nationale, le 13 septembre 1791 [Message of the King to the National Assembly, 13 September 1791]”, in Constitution française, présentée au roi par l'Assemblée nationale, le 3 septembre 1791 [French Constitution, presented to the King by the National Assembly, 3 September 1791], Dijon: Imprimerie de P. Causse, page 80:
- Que chacun se rappelle le moment où je me suis éloigné de Paris: la Constitution étoit près de s'achever; et cependant l'autorité des loix sembloit s'affoiblir chaque jour;... la licence des écrits étoit au comble; aucun pouvoir n'étoit respecté.
- Let everyone recalls himself of the moment when I was away from Paris: the Constitution was about to be completed; and yet the authority of the laws seem to weaken every day;... the licence of the writings was at its peak; no power was respected.
Derived terms
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editFurther reading
edit- “licence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
editEtymology
editlicenc + -e (possessive suffix)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlicence
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | licence | — |
accusative | licencét | — |
dative | licencének | — |
instrumental | licencével | — |
causal-final | licencéért | — |
translative | licencévé | — |
terminative | licencéig | — |
essive-formal | licenceként | — |
essive-modal | licencéül | — |
inessive | licencében | — |
superessive | licencén | — |
adessive | licencénél | — |
illative | licencébe | — |
sublative | licencére | — |
allative | licencéhez | — |
elative | licencéből | — |
delative | licencéről | — |
ablative | licencétől | — |
non-attributive possessive – singular |
licencéé | — |
non-attributive possessive – plural |
licencééi | — |
Old French
editEtymology
editNoun
editlicence oblique singular, f (oblique plural licences, nominative singular licence, nominative plural licences)
- leave; permission to be away, to be not present
Descendants
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