Etymologies
- From Titan. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Netflix, the Blockbuster-buster and mail-order DVD titan, is now calling itself a full-fledged Internet company and says it may begin to offer online-only video-streaming subscriptions this year.”
The Washington Post: Netflix moves beyond DVD, tangles with ISPs on net neutrality
“Vast values for international banking developed, including the "titan" - a £100million individual note used by the Bank of England for accounting purposes.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The cosmetics titan is a crucial figure in the mayor’s quest to stay in office beyond the end of his second term next year.”
“This is significant because the social networking titan, which is breaking nearly every metric on the Web time spent, traffic, news dissemination, display ads could capture part of the market for a massively important app for desktop and mobile devices, one currently dominated by Google and Microsoft.”
The Washington Post: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces new email, messaging system
“Interestingly enough, back in November, I interviewed spoken word titan-activist and IFC talk show host Henry Rollins about Prop 8.”
Greg Archer: Celebs and Other Opponents of Prop 8 Take to the Streets. But Is it Enough?
“He has sought to turn the company into a global titan, which is what led him to push for the acquisition of the Norilsk stake earlier this year.”
“The flower, called a titan arums or “corpse flower,” apparently has a terrible smell - hence the name?”
“Also known as the titan arum, it's believed to be one of the world's largest flowering plants, in the same family as peace lilies and skunk cabbage.”
“Davis, who is called a titan in the music industry and "the man with the golden ear", discovered artists from Joplin to Springsteen, to Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys.”
“Indiana's Dan Burton delivered a shrill attack on McNamee — "Lie after lie after lie" — then called Clemens a "titan" of baseball and soon after left the room for the duration, presumably to buy his Yankee season tickets.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘titan’.
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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kerniving, scandinavia, confectionary, mangrove, bejewelled, flesh, crystalline, gazelle, pantaloons, bluebird, caribou, albatross and 88 more...
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Words for Big
Words, terms and phrases that denote big, bigness, or making something bigger.
enlarge, giant, giantess, biggify, enormous, enhance, augment, whopper, swell, swollen, inflated, gigantic and 54 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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Fictional beasties
elf, gnome, dwarf, sprite, troll, fairy, nymph, imp, brownie, sasquatch, yeti, wookiee and 574 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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Foxtrot's list
afternoon delight, almost unreal, full of spark, dazzle n daze, alarming stride, rushing tide, double dagger, in the nude, constant pressure, widow maker, bourbon on the rocks, air fare holme and 311 more...
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ephemerides
being words related to astronomy, stellar cartography, and the music of the spheres, including names of planets, stars and constellations
ephemerides, ascension, declination, apogee, planet, star, constellation, galaxy, system, syzygy, ecliptic, sun and 202 more...
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many moons ago...
luna, phobos, deimos, metis, adrastea, amalthea, thebe, io, europa, ganymede, callisto, themisto and 140 more...
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gorgonglare's list
the best
zeppelin, ion, laconic, serendipity, cataract, saturnine, syzygy, cinnabar, bistro, lithium, paroxysm, scion and 694 more...
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(Medical) Marijuana Strains
Names of various "medicinal" Cannabis strains, harvested from various sources.
grape ape, grape wreck, trainwreck, black domina, sweet wreck, cal-p, jack herer, purple princess, northern lights #5, amnesia haze, c5 haze, cambodian haze and 685 more...
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American Gladiators
No, seriously.
malibu, lace, gemini, zap, nitro, sunny, blaze, bronco, gold, laser, jade, titan and 40 more...
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mythic: Greece
eos, ares, zeus, uranus, urania, tyche, triton, titan, tisiphone, thetis, theseus, themis and 73 more...
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fantasy books > reality
magecraft, incantation, pentagram, elemental, vespers, harbinger, brillig, pullulus, entropy, exodus, cantrip, revenant and 19 more...
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Ancient Greek mythical creatures and ...
argus, xanthus, water nymph, unipeg, siren, sileni, sea monster, oceanid, nereid, merman, mermaid, ipotanes and 6 more...
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ragnvaeig's Words
incarnadine, percolation, simulacrum, promethean, enchiridion, lugubriousness, adamantine, verisimilitude, cumulonimbus, silvern, sophister, hex and 50 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for titan.
bilby A banknote worth one hundred million British pounds. Explanation here.
Jan 26, 2013