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’.