{
    "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’."
}