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

While city officials tackle how to collect fees and some related issues, a group of park organizations called the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership is compiling the license plate numbers of all park workers, volunteers and contractors. —David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026

Yet, advocacy group Transportation Alternatives opposes Priscilla’s Law — named after Priscilla Loke, a teacher killed by an e-bike — which would require them to be registered with license plates. —Sameer Butt, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026

The system will also capture a clear photo of the vehicle’s license plate. —Sacbee.com, 4 Jan. 2026

Through camera footage and license plate data, detectives learned Tejada had been working as an Uber driver at the time. —CBS News, 2 Jan. 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