eligible
See also: éligible
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French eligible, from Latin eligibilis, from ēligō (“select, choose”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒə.bəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛl.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈel.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/
Adjective edit
eligible (comparative more eligible, superlative most eligible)
- Allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something
- Worthy of being chosen (for marriage).
Usage notes edit
Used in the phrase eligible bachelor to mean “desirable male”, the corresponding term for a woman is nubile.
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Translations edit
meeting the necessary requirements to participate; worthy of being chosen
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worthy of being chosen (for marriage)
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See also edit
Noun edit
eligible (plural eligibles)
- One who is eligible.
- 2007 October 3, Diane Ravitch, “Get Congress Out of the Classroom”, in New York Times[1]:
- Federal agencies report that only about 1 percent of eligible students take advantage of switching schools and fewer than 20 percent of eligibles receive extra tutoring.
Translations edit
one who is eligible
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Middle French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin eligibilis.
Adjective edit
eligible m or f (plural eligibles)
- choosable; selectable (that one can choose)
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (eligible, supplement)