eligible

«eligible» in Mova's school dictionary: Allowed to do or get something because you meet the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (eligible)

meaning for a pupil

1) Allowed to do or get something because you meet the rules, as in «eligible to vote» or «eligible for free school meals». tree →

2) (old-fashioned) A good person to marry, usually rich and single, as in «an eligible bachelor». tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and school: you might be eligible for a team, a prize or a competition if you are the right age. In citizenship, people in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia are eligible to vote at 18. In old novels like «Pride and Prejudice», characters talk about eligible young men. Phrases: «eligible for», «eligible to».

examples

• Children aged 9 to 11 are eligible for the chess competition. tree →
• You are eligible to vote at 18. tree →
• Only Year 6 pupils are eligible to be prefects. tree →
• She was not eligible because she had already won. tree →
• Some families are eligible for free school meals. tree →
• In the novel, he was the most eligible bachelor in town. tree →
• He remembered that you have to prove you don’t know you have it before you are eligible for Pop. tree →

note

Opposite: «ineligible». Spelling: «eli-gible», with «-gible» like «legible». Not the same as «legible» (easy to read).

In the corpora

• Toad describes his house like an estate agent's advert: «an eligible self-contained gentleman's residence very unique ...

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «eligible» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.