license plate

noun

: a plate or tag (as of metal) attesting that a license has been secured and usually bearing a registration number

Examples of license plate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Maybe Elon Musk didn’t like the look of a front license plate on his pretty-pretty car, and Teslas aren’t made with the usual front-plate installation accommodations. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Court documents state a license plate reader detected the Charger in the area before and after the shooting. — Nicholas Lentz, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

Krajewski said officers had a description of a vehicle suspected to be involved but no license plate. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026

There are more than 2,000 license plate cameras across Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties, according to a Miami Herald analysis, and many of those will not be removed under the state’s new, partial ban. — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1924, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for license plate

• abbreviate
• accelerate
• accommodate
• accumulate
• acuminate
• adjudicate
• adulterate
• affiliate
• agglomerate
• agglutinate
• alleviate
• amalgamate

Kids Definition

license plate

noun

: a plate or tag (as of metal) showing that a license has been gotten and usually bearing a registration number