entitle
verb (entitle, entitles, entitled, entitling)
Everyday
- To entitle someone to something is to give them the right to have or do it. tree →
- To entitle a book, film or poem is to give it a title. tree →
- (adjective entitled) Someone who acts entitled thinks they deserve special treatment. tree →
In the lessons
Rights and fairness (every child is entitled to education), money and shopping (entitled to a refund), books and art (a poem entitled…), behaviour talk (an entitled attitude).
Examples
- This ticket entitles you to one free drink. tree →
- Every child is entitled to go to school. tree →
- You are entitled to a refund if it's broken. tree →
- Her poem is entitled «The Sea». tree →
- Being captain doesn't entitle you to boss others around. tree →
- He acts so entitled, expecting everyone to wait for him. tree →
- "Your companions," said she, "have already been received into my palace, and have enjoyed the hospitable treatment to which the propriety of their behavior so well entitles them. tree →
Note
Pattern: entitle someone to something / be entitled to something. Noun: entitlement. Both «titled» and «entitled» are fine for names of books.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «entitle» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «entitle» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/entitle/