Definition of "title"

title

/ˈtaɪ.təl/

noun
plural titles
1. An appellation given to a person or family to signify either veneration, official position, social rank, the possession of assets or properties, or a professional or academic qualification. See also Category:Titles
  Quotations
  Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present deathWith his former title greet Macbeth.
  c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii]
  He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
  1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎
2. (property law) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
3. In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
4. A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
5. The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.
6. A publication.
7. A section or division of a subject, as of a law or a book.
8. (chiefly in the plural) A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.
9. (bookbinding) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
10. The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.
11. A division of an act of law
12. (sports) The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.
  Quotations
  With some City fans already leaving the stadium in tears, Edin Dzeko equalised in the second of five minutes of stoppage time before Sergio Aguero scored the goal that won the title.
  2012 May 13, Phil McNulty, “Man City 3-2 QPR”, in BBC Sport
  Equally disadvantageous to Jackson was the fact that other than the Jacksonville Athletic Club and the National Sporting Club, virtually no organization was willing to sponsor a title fight between a black fighter and a white one.
  1997, David Kenneth Wiggins, Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America
13. (law, formal) A long title.
14. (law, informal) A short title.
verb
third-person singular simple present titles, present participle titling, simple past and past participle titled
1. (transitive) To assign a title to; to entitle.