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TITLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does titled mean? 

TITLED (adjective)
  The adjective TITLED has 1 sense:

1. belonging to the peerageplay

  Familiarity information: TITLED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TITLED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Belonging to the peerage

Synonyms:

coroneted; highborn; titled

Context example:

the titled classes

Similar:

noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)


 Context examples 


These were the findings of a special report titled Impacto, vulnerabilidade e adaptação das cidades costeiras brasileiras às mudanças climáticas.

(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)

Her black satin dress, her scarf of rich foreign lace, and her pearl ornaments, pleased me better than the rainbow radiance of the titled dame.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In his new book launched today (November 26) titled Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood story, he explores the tricks of ‘wily Ea’, who is also known as the ‘crafty god’ and the ‘trickster god’.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

Before we had been out two hours, we were deep in a confidential conversation: she had favoured me with a description of the brilliant winter she had spent in London two seasons ago—of the admiration she had there excited—the attention she had received; and I even got hints of the titled conquest she had made.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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