title – English noun declension

English noun forms of title

Noun: title
Singulartitle
Pluraltitles

Sample Sentences

  • I know the singer's name, but not the title of the song.
  • The retailer carries thousands of titles.
  • Buyers of the new video game console can choose from three bundled titles.
  • Title II of the USA PATRIOT Act
  • Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death
  • With 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, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:]
  • The old man had always favored the match. He liked Clayton, and, being of an old southern family, he put rather an exaggerated value on the advantages of a title, which meant little or nothing to his daughter. [1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 100:]
  • 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. [1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:]
  • a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title
  • The titles scrolled by too quickly to read.
  • 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:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Etruscanbor.?
3. Latin titulusbor.
4. Old English titul
5. Middle English title
6. English title
7. From Middle English title, titel, from Old English titul (“title, heading, superscription”), from Latin titulus (“title, inscription”). Doublet of tilde, titer/titre, titlo, tittle, and titulus. See: Middle English Nouns 'title', Latin Nouns 'titulus'.