title

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
title/ˈtʌɪtl/

▶noun

• 1 the name of a book, musical composition, or other artistic work.

  ■ a caption or credit in a film or broadcast.

• 2 a name describing a person's position or job.

  ■ a word used before or instead of a person's name, indicating social or official rank, profession, or academic or marital status.

• 3 a descriptive or distinctive name that is earned or chosen: the title of Best Restaurant of the Year.

• 4 the position of being the champion of a major sports competition: he won the world title.

• 5 Law a right or claim to the ownership of property or to a rank or throne.

• 6 (in church use) a fixed sphere of work and source of income as a condition for ordination.

  ■ a parish church in Rome under a cardinal.

▶verb give a title to.

– derivatives
titled adjective.

– origin OE titul, reinforced by OFr. title, both from L. titulus ‘inscription, title’.