noun
Meaning 1
That which is entailed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
entail
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɛnˈteɪl/
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Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈteɪl/
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Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ənˈteɪl/
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Australian: /enˈtæɪl/
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Australian: /ɪnˈtæɪl/
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Australian: /ənˈtæɪl/
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noun
Meaning 2
That which is entailed.
An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
That which is entailed.
The rule by which the descent is fixed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 4
Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 5
To imply, require, or invoke.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- 1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England Allowing them to entail their estates.
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 7
To appoint hereditary possessor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 8
the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change
noun
Meaning 9
land received by fee tail
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: estate, land, landed estate, acres, demesne
verb
Meaning 10
limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fee-tail
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bequeath, will, leave
verb
Meaning 11
impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- What does this move entail?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: implicate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lead
verb
Meaning 12
have as a logical consequence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: imply, mean
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: necessitate
History
Etymology
From Middle English entaille (“carving”), from Old French entaille (“incision”), from the verb entailler. See above.
From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: entail — that which is entailed
- Polish: ordynacja — that which is entailed
- Polish: majorat — that which is entailed
- Catalan: implicar — imply or require
- Czech: mít za následek — imply or require
- Czech: znamenat — imply or require
- Czech: nést s sebou — imply or require
- Czech: obnášet — imply or require
- Dutch: verlangen — imply or require
- Dutch: impliceren — imply or require
- Dutch: tot gevolg hebben — imply or require
- Finnish: sisältää — imply or require
- Finnish: tuoda mukanaan — imply or require
- French: comporter — imply or require
- French: impliquer — imply or require
- French: requérir — imply or require
- German: bedingen — imply or require
- German: mit sich bringen — imply or require
- German: nach sich ziehen — imply or require
- German: verursachen — imply or require
- German: zur Folge haben — imply or require
- German: erfordern — imply or require
- Ido: necesigar — imply or require
- Italian: comportare — imply or require
- Italian: implicare — imply or require
- Occitan: implicar — imply or require
- Occitan: comportar — imply or require
- Occitan: requèrre — imply or require
- Persian: مستلزم بودن (mostalzem budan) — imply or require
- Persian: ایجاب کردن (ijâb kardan) — imply or require
- Polish: wiązać się z — imply or require
- Polish: nieść za sobą — imply or require
- Polish: pociągać za sobą — imply or require
- Polish: pociągnąć za sobą — imply or require
- Portuguese: implicar — imply or require
- Portuguese: pressupor — imply or require
- Portuguese: requerer — imply or require
- Russian: тре́бовать (trébovatʹ) — imply or require
- Russian: влечь (vlečʹ) — imply or require
- Serbo-Croatian: zahtijevati — imply or require
- Spanish: conllevar — imply or require
- Spanish: entrañar — imply or require
- French: conférer — settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing
- French: accorder — settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing
- German: als unveräußerliches Gut vererben — settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing
- Polish: przekazywać jako ordynację lub majorat — settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing
- Polish: przekazać jako ordynację lub majorat — settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing