entitle

«entitle» in Mova's school dictionary: to give them the right to have or do it — 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

verb (entitle, entitles, entitled, entitling)

meaning for a pupil

1) To entitle someone to something is to give them the right to have or do it. tree →

2) To entitle a book, film or poem is to give it a title. tree →

3) (adjective entitled) Someone who acts entitled thinks they deserve special treatment. tree →

sense 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.

In the corpora

• Rights are things every person is entitled to, such as safety, education, being heard and freedom of belief.

Trees and pragmatics

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