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# entitle

verb (entitle, entitles, entitled, entitling)

«entitle» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To entitle someone to something is to give them the right to have or do it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitle/#m1)
2. To entitle a book, film or poem is to give it a title. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitle/#m2)
3. (adjective entitled) Someone who acts entitled thinks they deserve special treatment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitle/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitle/#x1)
- Every child is entitled to go to school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitle/#x2)
- You are entitled to a refund if it's broken. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitle/#x3)
- Her poem is entitled «The Sea». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitle/#x4)
- Being captain doesn't entitle you to boss others around. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitle/#x5)
- He acts so entitled, expecting everyone to wait for him. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitle/#x6)
- "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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitle/#x7)

### 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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«entitle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/entitle.html) on Mova free.