entitle

Verb

Meaning

To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "Honorable."

To give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.

To attribute; to ascribe.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

enable qualify designate empower ennoble name style title gentle characterize commission christen term allow call
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Antonyms

ban ward off disempower disemploy be allowed be permitted
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Hypernyms

name call advance promote raise authorize

Hyponyms

knight lord proclaim dub baronetise baronetize

Derivatives

entitled entitling

Anagrams

Linette titlene

Examples

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. Kurt Vonnegut

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans? Peter Singer

Entitle us to the Liberty of proving the Truth of the Papers, which in the Information are called false, malicious, seditious and scandalous. John Peter Zenger

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here. Francesca Annis

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful? André Gide

Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame... and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. Henry Knox

Close letter words and terms

entitativity entitic entitize entitled entitled person entitled to a life