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titian

/ˈtɪʃən/

titian noun: a bright auburn colour, tinted with gold.

titian: a bright auburn colour, tinted with gold
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Noun

titian (countable and uncountable, plural titians)

  1. A bright auburn colour, tinted with gold.

Adjective (1)

titian (comparative more titian, superlative most titian)

  1. Of a bright auburn colour, tinted with gold, especially in reference to hair.
    • It was not the kind of face he had expected to see at all. It was young, smooth-skinned, heart-shaped, surrounded by an aura of vivid titian hair that coiled luxuriantly.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 80

Adjective (2) capitalized: Titian

Titian (comparative more Titian, superlative most Titian)

  1. Of or relating to Titus Tatius, a king of the Sabines according to the Roman foundation myth.
    • Upon his return from Africa, he was honoured with the triumphal ornaments, and admitted among the Titian prieſts, and the prieſts of Auguſtus.1748, An Universal History from the Earliest Account of Time, volume 14, page 476
  2. Of or relating to the Roman emperor Titus (r. 79–81 AD).
    • On the Titian arch it is sculptured, but remains now in only a mutilated state; […]1861, The People's Dictionary of the Bible, volume 1, page 267

Proper noun capitalized: Titian

Titian (plural Titians)

  1. various Christian saints
  2. Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 1576), an Italian Renaissance painter.
    • There are no evidences in these days of Michelangelos and Titians, who at the age of eighty or ninety could turn out stronger work than our people of thirty and forty today! Nowhere else in the world is there any such evidence. But there is a sympathy, a tenderness of understanding in these modern...1926 October 11, C. F. B., “Old and New Pictures in Venice”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Atlantic edition, volume XVIII, number 268, Boston, Mass.: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN...

titian meaning in Vietnamese

titian in Vietnamese

bright auburn colour
màu hung bóng, màu hung sáng
of a bright auburn colour
hung bóng, hung sáng

Forms of titian

Noun
pluraltitians
Adjective
comparativemore titian
superlativemost titian
comparativemore Titian
superlativemost Titian
Proper noun
pluralTitians

Plural of titian: titians

Origin of titian

Named after Titian (Italian Tiziano), the Italian painter who made frequent use of this colour.

From Latin Titiānus (“of or relating to Titus; a male given name”), from Titus + -iānus. By surface analysis, Titus + -ian.

Words formed from titian

Words that rhyme with titian

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Questions about titian

What does titian mean?
Titian means a bright auburn colour, tinted with gold.
What is titian in Vietnamese?
Titian in Vietnamese is màu hung bóng, màu hung sáng, hung bóng. See Titian meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is titian?
Titian can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce titian?
Titian is pronounced /ˈtɪʃən/.
What is the plural of titian?
The plural of titian is titians.

Words near titian in the dictionary

  1. Tithonus
  2. Tiths
  3. tithymal
  4. tithymals
  5. titi
  6. titian
  7. Titianesque
  8. Titianic
  9. titians
  10. Titicaca
  11. Titicaca frog

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