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poetic license

poetic license is the US standard spelling of poetic licence.

Meaning of poetic licence

Noun

poetic licence (uncountable)

  1. Any departure from convention or from factual accuracy taken by a writer to achieve a desired effect.

Questions about poetic license

What is poetic license the US standard spelling of?
Poetic license is the US standard spelling of poetic licence.

Words near poetic license in the dictionary

  1. poethood
  2. poetic
  3. Poetic Edda
  4. poetic justice
  5. poetic licence
  6. poetic license
  7. poetical
  8. poetical justice
  9. poeticalities
  10. poeticality
  11. poetically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poetic license (page history and authors); poetic 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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