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Congress leaders said the song, whose title is Hindi for "Let There be Victory," will be played during rallies in rural towns, villages and cities.

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  1. noun An identifying name given to a book, play, film, musical composition, or other work.
  2. noun A general or descriptive heading, as of a book chapter.
  3. noun Written material to be read by viewers that is included in a film or television show, typically presenting credits, narration, or dialogue. Often used in the plural.
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  • The movie's title translates as “I remember,” and Fellini completed it when he was just past fifty, the same age as Ford is now. —  FSF,May2008
  • Congress leaders said the song, whose title is Hindi for "Let There be Victory," will be played during rallies in rural towns, villages and cities. —  Reuters: Top News
  • Congress leaders said the song, whose title is Hindi for Let There be Victory, will be played during rallies in rural towns, villages and cities. —  London Free Press - News
  • Argentinian-born Rodrigo Garcia, who works in Spain with a company whose title translates as The Butcher's Shop, aroused much controversy with productions involving maltreatment of a variety of animals. —  The Stage / News Headlines
  • The film's title comes from the Arabic word 'Fitna', which can simultaneously mean: a schism, secession, upheaval and anarchy.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English titul, superscription, and from Old French title, title, both from Latin titulus.

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  1. from Middle English title titel, titil, titill, a title, a stroke over an abridged word (a tittle), an epistle, from Old French title, titre, tiltre, a title, a stroke over an abridged word to indicate letters wanting, French titre, a title, a stroke over an abridged word, right, claim, standard (of gold and silver), document, title in law, title-deed, head (of a page), etc., =Provencal titol, tiltre, titule, point or dot over i, =Spanish titulo, title, tilde, a stroke over a word, an accent, tilde, =Portuguese titulo, title, til, a stroke over a word, an accent, tilde, =Catalan tittla, mark, sign, character, =Italian titolo, title, =Wallachian title, circumflex, =D. titel =Old High German titul, Middle High German titel, tittel, German titel =Swedish Danish titel, from Latin titulus, title, a superscription, label, notice, token, etc., Middle Latin also a stroke over an abridged word, a tittle; with dim, term, -ulus, from a root unknown. Of. tittleand tilde, doublets of title.
  2. =Old French tituler =Spanish Portuguese titular =Italian titolare, from Late Latin titulare, give a title or name to, from Latin titulus, a title: see title, n. Cf. entitle, entitule, intitule.
 

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