Other forms: titles
A title is the name given to a book, a film or a piece of music. The title track, working title, change the title.
It is not copyrightable, which is why several films can share one. A title is also a form of address — Dr, Lord — and in law it is the right of ownership to property, which is what a title deed records. In sport, the title is the championship. Note that the Latin titulus means an inscription.
1nountitleThe name given to a book, film or piece of music.
“I can't remember the title of the book, but it had a red cover.”
2nounrightThe legal right of ownership.
“The bank holds the title to the house until the loan is paid.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
title is a name, or a right.
Latin titulus means an inscription or label. Tittle and tilde come from the same word.
Old English
titul
Middle English
title
English, today
title
From Middle English title, from Old English titul. From Middle English title, titel, from Old English titul (“title, heading, superscription”), from Latin titulus (“title, inscription”). a doublet of tilde and titer/titre and titlo and tittle and titulus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA