title
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin titulus (“title, inscription”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
title (plural titles)
- A prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification. See also Category:Titles
- (law) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
- The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.
- A publication.
- The retailer carries thousands of titles.
- Buyers of the new video game console can choose from three bundled titles.
- A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance (usually titles pl).
- The titles scrolled by too quickly to read.
- The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.
- A division of an act of Congress or Parliament.
- Title II of the USA PATRIOT Act
- (sports) This word needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}.- 2012 May 13, Phil McNulty, “Man City 3-2 QPR”, BBC Sport:
- With some City fans already leaving the stadium in tears, Edin Dzeko equalised in the second of five minutes of stoppage time before Sergio Aguero scored the goal that won the title.
- 1997, David Kenneth Wiggins, Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America
- Equally disadvantageous to Jackson was the fact that other than the Jacksonville Athletic Club and the National Sporting Club, virtually no organization was willing to sponsor a title fight between a black fighter and a white one.
- 2012 May 13, Phil McNulty, “Man City 3-2 QPR”, BBC Sport:
Synonyms [edit]
- See also Wikisaurus:title
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
prefix or suffix added to a name
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right to ownership
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certificate of ownership
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name of a book, etc
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subject of a writing
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Verb [edit]
title (third-person singular simple present titles, present participle titling, simple past and past participle titled)
- (transitive) To assign a title to; to entitle.
Translations [edit]
the act of assigning a title
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