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titlene

titlene is the alternative form of titling.

Meaning of titling

Noun (1)

titling (plural titlings)

  1. The act of giving something a title, or of impressing the title on the back of a book.
    • 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.1839, Archibald Swinton, Report of the Trial of Alexander Humphreys Or Alexander, Claiming the Title Earl of Stirling, Before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, for the Crime of Forgery, page...
  2. A legal right to a property; holding a title.
    • People took possession of the tenantless cottages to which their only titling is the holding of the key : a few of these still remain.1888, A Handbook for Travelers in Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight, page 217

Noun (2)

titling (plural titlings)

  1. The hedge sparrow, dunnock, titlene, Prunella modularis.
    • The Titling therefore that sitteth, being thus deceived, hatcheth the egge and bringeth up the chicke of another bird.1601, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, Book X
  2. The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).
    • In the North this is so commonly observed, that the cuckoo is popularly believed to be always attended by the titling or pippet (Anthus pratensis, Bechstein), which it is further imagined, has been its step-mother and nurse from the egg;1833, “Eagle shooting in the Alps”, in The Sportsman’s Cabinet, and Town and Country Magazine, page 126
  3. (obsolete) Stockfish.
    • “[…]Stock-fish—Titling—Cropling—Lub-fish. You should have noted that they are all, nevertheless, to be entered as titlings. How many inches long is a titling?”1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy

Forms of titlene

pluraltitlenes

Questions about titlene

What is titlene the alternative form of?
Titlene is the alternative form of titling.

Words near titlene in the dictionary

  1. titleholder
  2. titleholders
  3. titleholding
  4. titleless
  5. titlelessness
  6. titlene
  7. titlenes
  8. titlepage
  9. titlepages
  10. titler
  11. titlers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: titlene (page history and authors); titling (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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