ENTITLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entitled mean? 

• ENTITLED (adjective)
  The adjective ENTITLED has 1 sense:

1. qualified for by right according to law

  Familiarity information: ENTITLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTITLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Qualified for by right according to law

Context example:

we are all entitled to equal protection under the law

Similar:

eligible (qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen)

 Context examples 

I had been writing, in the newspaper and elsewhere, so prosperously, that when my new success was achieved, I considered myself reasonably entitled to escape from the dreary debates.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She had never considered herself as entitled to reward for not slighting an old friend like Mrs Smith, but here was a reward indeed springing from it!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I know no one more entitled, by unpretending merit, or better prepared by habitual suffering, to receive and enjoy felicity.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In fact, it was when filled with these thoughts that he wrote his essay entitled "Star-dust," in which he had his fling, not at the principles of criticism, but at the principal critics.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A native or naturalized member of a state or country, especially one entitled to vote and enjoy other privileges there.

(Citizen, NCI Thesaurus)

A study entitled Atlas of the Caatingas gathers in-depth data on both the land and the flora in each of the areas surveyed.

(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)

My reconcilement to the Yahoo kind in general might not be so difficult, if they would be content with those vices and follies only which nature has entitled them to.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But you are not entitled to know mine; nor will such behaviour as this, ever induce me to be explicit.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)