- 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
--1 is a kind of liberty
- license, licence - freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
--2 is a kind of liberty
--2 has particulars: poetic licenseDerived form: verb licence1 - license, licence, permit - a legal document giving official permission to do something
--3 is a kind of legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument
--3 has particulars: