Noun

• S: (n) license, licence, permit (a legal document giving official permission to do something)
• S: (n) license, licence (freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech))
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) liberty (freedom of choice) "liberty of opinion"; "liberty of worship"; "liberty--perfect liberty--to think or feel or do just as one pleases"; "at liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes"
• S: (n) freedom (the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints)
• S: (n) state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes) "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
• S: (n) attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) license, licence (excessive freedom; lack of due restraint) "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke
• S: (n) license, permission, permit (the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization)

Verb

• S: (v) license, licence, certify (authorize officially) "I am licensed to practice law in this state"