1. To give a name or title to someone or something.
2. To furnish a person with a right or claim to something: The ticket entitles the possessor to a ten percent savings.

Every U.S. citizen is legally entitled to equal protection under the law.

3. Etymology: from the late 14th century, "to give a title to a chapter, a book, etc."; from Anglo-French entitler, Old French entiteler; from Modern French intituler; from Late Latin intitulare; from in- "not, opposite of, without" + titulus, "inscription, heading".