titling
/ˈtaɪtl̩ɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.35 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of giving something a title, or of impressing the title on the back of a book.
noun
A legal right to a property; holding a title.
noun
noun
The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).
Example Sentences
- "Then, gentlemen, not only is this a forgery, but it is a modern forgery. It is a forgery since 1806—since the date of the rebinding of the Record by Mr Thompson, when the new mode of titling was introduced."
- "The leather for the spine strip was onlaid with the titling and other linking features separately from the covers."
- "People took possession of the tenantless cottages to which their only titling is the holding of the key : a few of these still remain."
- "Where shifting cultivation or bush fallowing are widely practised, it is unlikely that strong pressure for titling will emerge from within the area concerned. The primary momentum for titling will probably be exogenously generated,"
- "The Titling therefore that sitteth, being thus deceived, hatcheth the egge and bringeth up the chicke of another bird."
- "[…]its winter note resembles the word, Tit, Tit, often repeated, which has given it the name of Titling in many parts of the country."