licence

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪsəns/

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• Hyphenation: li‧cence

licence (countable and uncountable, plural licences)

1. (UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore) Standard spelling of license.

licence (third-person singular simple present licences, present participle licencing, simple past and past participle licenced)

1. (UK, Canada, South Africa, nonstandard) Misspelling of license.

• 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.

Borrowed from Latin licentia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪ.tsen.tse/

licence f

1. licence (UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand), license (US)

• licence in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• licence in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Old French licence, borrowed from Latin licentia.

• IPA^(key): /li.sɑ̃s/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s
• Homophone: licences

licence f (plural licences)

1. licence
2. permit, certificate
3. (education) bachelor's degree (more accurately in France Bac+3)
4. (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]‎, 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.

• licence poétique
• licencier
  • licenciement
• licencieux

• loisir

• → Turkish: lisans

• “licence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

licenc +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈlit͡sɛnt͡sɛ]
• Hyphenation: li‧cen‧ce

licence

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of licenc

Borrowed from Latin licentia.

licence f (oblique plural licences, nominative singular licence, nominative plural licences)

1. leave; permission to be away, to be not present

• French: licence
• → English: licence, license