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# 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 →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitle/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [Rights are things every person is entitled to, such as safety, education, being heard and freedom of belief.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «entitle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/entitle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.