title
part of speech
noun (a title, titles); verb (title, titles, titled, titling)
meaning for a pupil
1) The name of a book, film, song, picture or piece of writing. tree →
2) A word used before a person's name to show who they are: Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Sir, Lady. tree →
3) In sport, the position of champion: She won the world title. tree →
4) (law) The legal right to own something, especially land: the title deeds. tree →
5) Verb: to give a name to a book, song or work. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school you write a title at the top of your work and underline it; graphs and charts need a title too. In stories titles of nobility like Lord or Duchess show rank. In sport, teams fight for a title. In maths, a bar chart's title tells what the data show.
examples
- Write the title at the top of the page. tree →
- What's the title of your favourite book? tree →
- Give your graph a clear title. tree →
- Our team won the league title! tree →
- Her title is Dr Patel. tree →
- The painting is titled «Sunflowers». tree →
- Sir is a title given by the king or queen. tree →
- This story, also, is without special title. tree →
note
Titles of books and films usually take capital letters on the main words. «Title» (champion) can be held and «defended». Linked: subtitle, entitled (having a right to something).
In the corpora
- Bots can invent book titles and authors that sound real but do not exist.
- Scientists even borrowed Kipling's title: they call a neat explanation that nobody has tested «a just-so story».
- In Chinese families you greet each elder by their title, out loud: «yéye hǎo!».
- You can predict before reading, from the title, the cover and the pictures.
- Instructions have a title, a list of what you need, numbered steps and bossy verbs.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «title» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.