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# title

«title» in Mova's school dictionary: **The name of a book, film, song, picture or piece of writing** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/title/#m1)

2) A word used before a person's name to show who they are: Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Sir, Lady. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/title/#m2)

3) In sport, the position of champion: She won the world title. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/title/#m3)

4) (law) The legal right to own something, especially land: the title deeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/title/#m4)

5) Verb: to give a name to a book, song or work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/title/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/title/#x1)
- What's the title of your favourite book? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/title/#x2)
- Give your graph a clear title. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/title/#x3)
- Our team won the league title! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/title/#x4)
- Her title is Dr Patel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/title/#x5)
- The painting is titled «Sunflowers». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/title/#x6)
- Sir is a title given by the king or queen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/title/#x7)
- This story, also, is without special title. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/title/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/13/)
- [Scientists even borrowed Kipling's title: they call a neat explanation that nobody has tested «a just-so story».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab/6/)
- [In Chinese families you greet each elder by their title, out loud: «yéye hǎo!».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/10-grandparents-aunties-uncles/1/)
- [You can predict before reading, from the title, the cover and the pictures.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/16/)
- [Instructions have a title, a list of what you need, numbered steps and bossy verbs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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