titan

From Titan.

• enPR: tīʹtən, IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪtən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪtən
• Homophones: tighten, Titan
• Rhymes: -aɪtɪn

titan (plural titans)

1. Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:

     The battle of the titans at the bridal door explodes into the marketplace; and wall and doorpost shatter as they fight with the fury of bulls.

   • 2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:

     In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil.

   • 2022 April 5, Elizabeth Wetmore, “How Far Will Parents Go to Protect Their Sons?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Whitney, mother of Xavier, is a real estate titan who, along with her British husband, has found her niche selling luxurious underground bunkers to wealthy clients looking for a safe space to hunker down in the event of a climate apocalypse.

• 'taint, Nitta, Tanit, nitta, taint, tinta

Chemical element
Ti
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• IPA^(key): [ˈtɪtan]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ti‧tan

titan m inan

1. titanium

• “titan”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “titan”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Chemical element
Ti
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From Ancient Greek Τιτάν (Titán).

titan c or n (singular definite titanen or titanet, not used in plural form)

1. (Greek, mythology) the Titans
   1. (by extension) a strong, determined and rebellious person
2. (chemistry) titanium

   Synonym: titanium

(definition 1)

(definition 2)

• “titan” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ti.tɑ̃/

• Audio (Switzerland):

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃
• Hyphenation: ti‧tan

titan m (plural titans)

1. titan
2. titan beetle

• “titan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

titan

1. morning

titan n (definite singular titanet) (uncountable)

1. titanium (chemical element, symbol Ti)

“titan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

titan n (definite singular titanet) (uncountable)

1. titanium (as above)

• “titan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /tiˈtan/
• Hyphenation: ti‧tan

Chemical element
Ti
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Borrowed from French titane.

titan n (uncountable)

1. titanium (chemical element)

Borrowed from French titan.

titan m (plural titani)

1. titan

• “titan”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Chemical element
Ti
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Next: vanádij (V)

• IPA^(key): /titáːn/

titȃn m inan

1. titanium

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	titán
genitive	titána
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	titán
genitive (rodȋlnik)	titána
dative (dajȃlnik)	titánu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	titán
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	titánu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	titánom

• “titan”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Chemical element
Ti
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• IPA^(key): /tɪˈtɑːn/

From Ancient Greek Τιτάν (Titán).

titan c

1. (mythology) Titan; giant god
2. a titan, a giant, a great or important person
   1. (specifically) a nickname for August Strindberg

German Titan (or Latin titanium), named by Martin Heinrich Klaproth after the Greek mythological Titans (as Etymology 1).

titan n

1. titanium

• titan in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• titan in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• titan in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH

• tinat

Chemical element
Ti
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• (nonstandard) titanyum

Borrowed from French titane.

• IPA^(key): [titán]
• Hyphenation: ti‧tan

titan (definite accusative titanı, plural titanlar)

1. titanium (chemical element)

• titanyum

Chemical element
Ti
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From French titane, from German Titan.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ti˧˧ taːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tɪj˧˧ taːn˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tɪj˧˧ taːn˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: ti tań

titan

1. titanium