diff --git a/types/entities/entities-tests.ts b/types/entities/entities-tests.ts
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+import * as entities from 'entities';
+
+// encoding
+entities.encodeXML(`&`);  // `&`
+entities.encodeHTML(`&`); // `&`
+
+// decoding
+entities.decodeXML(`asdf & ÿ ü '`);  // `asdf & ÿ ü '`
+entities.decodeHTML(`asdf & ÿ ü '`); // `asdf & ÿ ü '`
diff --git a/types/entities/index.d.ts b/types/entities/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for entities 1.1
+// Project: https://github.com/fb55/node-entities
+// Definitions by: Alice Klipper <https://github.com/aliceklipper>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+export function decode(data: string, level?: number): string;
+export function decodeStrict(data: string, level?: number): string;
+export function encode(data: string, level?: number): string;
+
+export function decodeXML(str: string): string;
+export function decodeXMLStrict(str: string): string;
+export function encodeXML(data: string): string;
+
+export function decodeHTML(str: string): string;
+export function decodeHTMLStrict(str: string): string;
+export function encodeHTML(data: string): string;
+
+export function decodeHTML4(str: string): string;
+export function decodeHTML4Strict(str: string): string;
+export function encodeHTML4(data: string): string;
+
+export function decodeHTML5(str: string): string;
+export function decodeHTML5Strict(str: string): string;
+export function encodeHTML5(data: string): string;
+
+export function escape(data: string): string;
diff --git a/types/entities/tsconfig.json b/types/entities/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "entities-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/entities/tslint.json b/types/entities/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }