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{
"term": "entitle",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "entitle",
"heSheIt": "entitles"
},
"pastSimple": "entitled",
"pastParticiple": "entitled",
"ingForm": "entitling"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to give somebody the right to have or to do something",
"sensetop": "be entitled to somethingentitle somebody to do something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "You will be entitled to your pension when you reach 66.",
"contextForm": "be entitled to something"
},
{
"text": "Everyone's entitled to their own opinion."
},
{
"text": "This ticket does not entitle you to travel first class.",
"contextForm": "entitle somebody to do something"
},
{
"text": "Of course, he's entitled to his opinion but I think he's wrong."
},
{
"text": "Passengers will be entitled to a full refund of the cost of the ticket."
},
{
"text": "The authorities were entitled to act as they did."
},
{
"text": "The discount vouchers entitle you to money off your electricity bill."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to give a title to a book, play, etc.",
"sensetop": "be entitled + noun",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He read a poem entitled ‘Salt’.",
"contextForm": "be entitled + noun"
},
{
"text": "The company launched a huge marketing campaign entitled ‘Buy Blue’."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtaɪtl/",
"audio": "en/entitle/entitle__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtaɪtlz/",
"audio": "en/entitle/entitles__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtaɪtld/",
"audio": "en/entitle/entitled__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtaɪtlɪŋ/",
"audio": "en/entitle/entitling__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtaɪtl/",
"audio": "en/entitle/entitle__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtaɪtlz/",
"audio": "en/entitle/entitles__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtaɪtld/",
"audio": "en/entitle/entitled__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtaɪtlɪŋ/",
"audio": "en/entitle/entitling__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (formerly also as intitle): via Old French from late Latin intitulare, from in- ‘in’ + Latin titulus ‘title’."
}