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Another word for entitle

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Verb

  1. To give a name or title to

      1. An identifying name given to a book, play, film, musical composition, or other work.
      2. A general or descriptive heading, as of a book chapter.
      3. A written work that is published or about to be published:
      1. A limited or established period of time that something is supposed to last, as a school or court session, tenure in public office, or a prison sentence.
      2. A point in time at which something ends; termination:
      3. The end of a normal gestation period:
      1. The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed:
      2. The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era.
      3. Sort; type:
      1. A word or words by which an entity is designated and distinguished from others.
      2. A word or group of words used to describe or evaluate, often disparagingly:
      3. Representation or repute, as opposed to reality:
      1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood.
      2. To honor with a new title or description.
      3. To give a name to facetiously or playfully; nickname.
      1. To indicate or specify; point out:
      2. To give a name or title to; characterize:
      3. To select and set aside for a duty, office, or purpose:
      1. To issue or express in terms of a given monetary unit:
      2. To give a name to; designate.
      3. Of or relating to a quantity as a multiple of a unit:
      1. To baptize into a Christian church.
      2. To give a name to at baptism.
      3. To name:
      1. To say in a loud voice; announce:
      2. To demand or ask for the presence of:
      3. To demand or ask for a meeting of; convene or convoke:
      1. To admit into Christianity by means of baptism.
      2. To cleanse or purify.
      3. To initiate.
    See also:

    words

    specific

  2. To give authority to

      1. To make competent or eligible for an office, position, or task:
      2. To declare competent or capable, as to practice a profession; certify:
      3. To render deserving of a descriptor by having or enumerating certain necessary characteristics:
      1. Official or legal permission to engage in a regulated activity:
      2. A document, card, plate, or tag that is issued as proof of official or legal permission:
      3. A contract allowing someone to use a proprietary product or service:
      1. To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity (to do something); make able:
      2. To make feasible or possible:
      3. To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to:
      1. To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority.
      2. To equip or supply with an ability; enable:
      1. The act of granting certain powers or the authority to carry out a particular task or duty.
      2. The authority so granted.
      3. The matter or task so authorized:
      1. To grant authority or power to.
      2. To give permission for (something); sanction:
      1. To ascribe or attribute (something) to someone:
      2. To give credit to:
      3. To certify as meeting prescribed standards or requirements, as of a profession:
    See also:

    allow

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for entitle

Verb

  1. To name

      1. An item used to identify something or someone, as a small piece of paper or cloth attached to an article to designate its origin, owner, contents, use, or destination.
      2. A descriptive term; an epithet.
      3. A distinctive name or trademark identifying a product or manufacturer, especially a recording company.
      1. To indicate or specify; point out:
      2. To give a name or title to; characterize:
      3. To select and set aside for a duty, office, or purpose:
      1. To say in a loud voice; announce:
      2. To demand or ask for the presence of:
      3. To demand or ask for a meeting of; convene or convoke:
    See also:

    .name

  2. To permit

      1. To make competent or eligible for an office, position, or task:
      2. To declare competent or capable, as to practice a profession; certify:
      3. To render deserving of a descriptor by having or enumerating certain necessary characteristics:
      1. To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority.
      2. To equip or supply with an ability; enable:
      1. To grant authority or power to.
      2. To give permission for (something); sanction:
    See also:

    allow

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Sentence Examples

  • Its purity of style and the fact that it was long a standard work entitle it to a mention here.

  • His brilliant researches in the theory of numbers entitle him to rank as the founder of the modern theory.

  • Apples are grown in such quantities as to entitle the county to the title applied to it, the orchard of Ireland.

  • 28-29), that mere physical descent could not entitle a Jew to the promises.

  • from the university of Dublin, he neither sought nor received the ordinary rewards to which his discoveries would entitle him.

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