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artistic license

artistic license is the US standard spelling of artistic licence.

Meaning of artistic licence

Noun

artistic licence (uncountable)

  1. Any departure from convention or from factual accuracy taken by an artist to achieve a desired effect.
    • The script takes a little artistic licence with the facts.

Questions about artistic license

What is artistic license the US standard spelling of?
Artistic license is the US standard spelling of artistic licence.

Words near artistic license in the dictionary

  1. artistess
  2. artistesses
  3. artistic
  4. artistic gymnastics
  5. artistic licence
  6. artistic license
  7. artistic swimming
  8. artistic temperament
  9. artistic temperaments
  10. artistical
  11. artistically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: artistic license (page history and authors); artistic licence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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