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
• S: (n) poetic license (poetic_license%1:26:00::) (license used by a writer or artist to heighten the effect of their work)
• 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"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• entailment
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• antonym
• W: (v) decertify (decertify%2:41:00::) [Opposed to: certify] (cause to be no longer approved or accepted) "Carter derecognized Taiwan in 1979 after the U.S. recognized the People's Republic of China"
• sentence frame