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Definition of "title" []

  • An identifying name given to a book, play, film, musical composition, or other work. (noun)
  • A general or descriptive heading, as of a book chapter. (noun)
  • Written material to be read by viewers that is included in a film or television show, typically presenting credits, narration, or dialogue. Often used in the plural. (noun)
  • A written piece of translated dialogue superimposed at the bottom of the frame during a film; a subtitle. (noun)
  • Law A heading that names a document, statute, or proceeding. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "title" in a sentence
  • "Not only can TagScanner clean up the artist, album, song title, and track number information for your digital music files, it can rename your songs based on a pattern you define like %artist% - %title%, it can make music playlists, and search online databases like freedb and Amazon to automatically tag music missing information."
  • "We do not speak of a title being born, or crucified; and when some early Christians denied that Jesus Christ was ever born or ever crucified, they had in mind not a _title_ but a _person."
  • "_Pride and Prejudice_ and the passage in _Cecilia_, there is an obvious connection between the title of _Pride and Prejudice_ and the _title of"