eligible meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

eligible

adj

UK /ˈɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒɪ.bəl/ · CA, US /ˈɛl.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/

Etymology From Middle French eligible, from Latin eligibilis, from ēligō (“to select, to choose”).

Allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something.

Worthy of being chosen (for marriage).

Derived terms: eligibleness, noneligible, reeligible, semieligible, semi-eligible, supereligible, ultraeligible, uneligible
Related terms: elect, elegant, eligibility, eligibly, elite, illegible

noun

Etymology From Middle French eligible, from Latin eligibilis, from ēligō (“to select, to choose”).

One who is eligible.

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.2007 October 3, Diane Ravitch, “Get Congress Out of the Classroom”, in New York Times: