MARRIAGE LICENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marriage licence mean? 

• MARRIAGE LICENCE (noun)
  The noun MARRIAGE LICENCE has 1 sense:

1. a license authorizing two people to marry

  Familiarity information: MARRIAGE LICENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARRIAGE LICENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A license authorizing two people to marry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

marriage licence; marriage license; wedding licence; wedding license

Hypernyms ("marriage licence" is a kind of...):

licence; license; permit (a legal document giving official permission to do something)

 Context examples 

The husband, whose name was Thomas Benjamin, had taken out his marriage licence as Thomas only; suppressing the Benjamin, in case he should not find himself as comfortable as he expected.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Spenlow had stepped out, old Tiffey said, to get a gentleman sworn for a marriage licence; but as I knew he would be back directly, our place lying close to the Surrogate's, and to the Vicar-General's office too, I told Peggotty to wait.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)