n.
      - the name of a book, musical composition, or other artistic work. ▸a caption or credit in a film or broadcast. 
- a name describing a person's position or job. ▸a word used before or instead of a person's name, indicating social or official rank, profession, or academic or marital status. 
- a descriptive or distinctive name that is earned or chosen:![]()  the title of Best Restaurant of the Year. 
- the position of being the champion of a major sports competition:![]()  he won the world title. 
- Law  a right or claim to the ownership of property or to a rank or throne.
- (in church use) a fixed sphere of work and source of income as a condition for ordination. ▸a parish church in Rome under a cardinal. 
v.
 give a title to.
Derivative
  
  Etymology
  OE titul, reinforced by OFr. title, both from L. titulus ‘inscription, title’.