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# titanic

«titanic» in Mova's school dictionary: **Extremely big, strong or important; huge** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (titanic; more titanic); proper noun (the Titanic)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Extremely big, strong or important; huge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#m1)

2) the Titanic: a giant British passenger ship that hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic on its first voyage in 1912; more than 1,500 people died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#m2)

3) In Greek myths, to do with the Titans, a race of giant gods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons the Titanic is a famous disaster that taught people about safety at sea: there were not enough lifeboats, and afterwards the rules changed. As an ordinary adjective «titanic» describes something enormous — «a titanic struggle», «a titanic effort». Phrases: «the sinking of the Titanic», «a titanic battle».

### examples

- The Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#x1)
- People said the Titanic was unsinkable, but they were wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#x2)
- There were not enough lifeboats on the Titanic for everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#x3)
- The final was a titanic battle between the two best teams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#x4)
- It took a titanic effort to clear the snow from the whole street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#x5)
- In the myth, the gods fought a titanic war against the Titans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#x6)
- My little brother's tantrum was titanic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#x7)

### note

Capital T and «the» for the ship: the Titanic. Small t for the adjective. Myth trap: the ship was never really «unsinkable»; that was a boast. «Titanic» is related to «titanium», a strong metal named after the Titans.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «titanic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.