WordNet Search - 3.1

Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations

Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"

Display options for word: word (sense key)

Noun

S: (n) license (license%1:10:00::), licence (licence%1:10:00::), permit (permit%1:10:02::) (a legal document giving official permission to do something)
S: (n) license (license%1:26:01::), licence (licence%1:26:01::) (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

derivationally related form

W: (v) licence (licence%2:41:00::) [Related to: licence] (authorize officially) "I am licensed to practice law in this state"

S: (n) license (license%1:26:02::), licence (licence%1:26:02::) (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 (license%1:04:00::), permission (permission%1:04:00::), permit (permit%1:04:00::) (the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization)

Verb

S: (v) license (license%2:41:00::), licence (licence%2:41:00::), certify (certify%2:41:02::) (authorize officially) "I am licensed to practice law in this state"