licence

From Old French licence, from Latin licentia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪsəns/

• Audio (AU)

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• Hyphenation: li‧cence

licence (countable and uncountable, plural licences)

1. (Britain, Canada, Australia, South Africa) Standard spelling of license.

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

1. (Britain, Canada, South Africa, nonstandard) Alternative form 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.

From Latin licentia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪ.tsen.tse/

licence f

1. licence (UK), license (US)

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

Borrowed from Latin licentia.

• IPA^(key): /li.sɑ̃s/

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  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s
• Homophone: licences

licence f (plural licences)

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

• licencier
  • licenciement
• licencieux

• loisir

• “licence” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

licenc +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

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

licence

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

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

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

• English: licence, license (borrowed)
• French: licence