TITLEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 title, titel, from 古期英語 titul (“title, heading, superscription”), from Latin titulus (“title, inscription”). Doublet of tilde, titer/titre, titlo, tittle, and titulus.

発音

• IPA: /ˈtaɪ.tl̩/
• 韻: -aɪtəl
• Homophone: tidal (in accents with flapping)
• ハイフネーション: ti‧tle

名詞

title (plural titles)

1. The name of a film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.

   I know the singer's name, but not the title of the song.

2. The name of a writing such as a book, which identifies it and usually describes its subject, with a short phrase that often summarizes its topic.
3. (by extension) A published piece of media.

   The retailer carries thousands of titles.

   Buyers of the new video game console can choose from three bundled titles.

4. (by extension) A section or division of a writing, as of an act of law or a book.

   Title II of the USA PATRIOT Act

5. 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, such as Mister, Mr, Ms, Doctor, or Dr; for more examples, see :Category:en:Titles.

   Synonym: style

   • 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]:

     Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death
     With his former title greet Macbeth.

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 100:

     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.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     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.

6. (property law) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.

   a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title

7. In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
8. A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
9. (chiefly in the plural) A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.

   The titles scrolled by too quickly to read.

10. (sports) The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.
11. (bookbinding) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
    • 2012 May 13, Phil McNulty, “Man City 3-2 QPR”, in BBC Sport:

      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.

    • 1997, David Kenneth Wiggins, Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America:

      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.

12. (law, formal) A long title.
13. (law, informal) A short title.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:title

派生語

派生した語

• ⇒ Wu: 抬頭 / 抬头 (⁶de-deu)
• → Japanese: タイトル (taitoru)
• → Korean: 타이틀 (taiteul)
• → Welsh: teitl

動詞

title (third-person singular simple present titles, present participle titling, simple past and past participle titled)

1. (transitive) To assign a title to; to entitle.

派生語