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courtesy titles

courtesy titles is the plural of courtesy title.

Meaning of courtesy title

Noun

courtesy title (plural courtesy titles)

  1. A person's title that has no legal validity but is used through custom or courtesy, particularly for children of the nobility.

Questions about courtesy titles

What is courtesy titles the plural of?
Courtesy titles is the plural of courtesy title.

Words near courtesy titles in the dictionary

  1. courtesy of
  2. courtesy of the trade
  3. courtesy phone
  4. courtesy telephone
  5. courtesy title
  6. courtesy titles
  7. courtesy turn
  8. courtesy turns
  9. courtesying
  10. courtesyings
  11. courteth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: courtesy titles (page history and authors); courtesy title (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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