Eligible: Definition and part of speech

Eligible

  1. a. Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house.
  2. a. That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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