entitle
/ɪnˈtʌɪt(ə)l
/ /ɛnˈtʌɪt(ə)l/verb [with object]
1 (often be entitled to) Give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something: employees are normally entitled to redundancy pay [with object and infinitive]: the landlord is entitled to require references...
- If she is entitled to receive it for professional services rendered, then she must be paid.
- In particular, would she be entitled to claim any compensation if I asked her to move out either now or in the future?
- He is entitled to claim that money back from the Commons as long as the office is not used for party politics.
Synonyms
qualify, make eligible, authorize, sanction, allow, permit, grant, grant/give the right, give permission;
enable, empower, accredit;
enfranchise, capacitate
2Give (something) a particular title: a satire entitled ‘The Rise of the Meritocracy’...
- De Botton presents us Xavier de Maistre, a Frenchman who, in 1790, undertook a journey around his bedroom, later entitling an account of what he had seen ‘Journey Around My Bedroom’.
2.1 [with object and complement] archaic Give (someone) a specified title expressing their rank, office, or character: they entitled him Sultan
Synonyms
title, name, call, give the title of, label, term, designate, dub;
baptize, christen
rare denominate
Origin
Late Middle English (formerly also as intitle): via Old French from late Latin intitulare, from in- 'in' + Latin titulus 'title'.
Rhymes
- cross-examiner
- cross-eyed
- cross-eyedness
- cross eyes
- cross-fade
- crossfader
- cross-fertilise
- cross-fertilization
- cross-fertilize
- crossfire
- CrossFit
- crossflow
- cross-functional
- cross-grain
- cross-grained
- cross guard
- cross hairs
- cross-hatch
- cross head
- cross heading
- cross-ice
- cross index
- cross infection
- crossing
- crossing guard