Pronunciation Noun
titan (plural titans)
- Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.
- 2014, Michael White, "Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe ↗", The Guardian, 8 September 2014:
- 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.
- 2014, Michael White, "Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe ↗", The Guardian, 8 September 2014:
Titan
Pronunciation Noun
titan (plural titans)
- Any of the race of giant gods in Greek mythology that preceded and was overthrown by the Olympian gods.
- See also Thesaurus:Titan
(Greek mythology) Another name for Helios, a personification of the Sun. - (astronomy) The largest moon of the planet Saturn.
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