Titanic Meaning
/taɪˈtænɪk/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjAlternative letter-case form of Titanic.
adjAlternative letter-case form of Titanic., Of or relating to the Titans, a race of gods in Greek mythology.
Sentence Examples
The Titanic sunk on its maiden voyage.
It was in 1912 that the Titanic sank during her first voyage.
Yanni's company was bought and absorbed by the titanic Boeing.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ waves from the tsunami swallowed entire coastal towns in minutes.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The explorers were amazed by the ____ size of the massive iceberg that they spotted in the Arctic ocean today.
Word Origin & History
See Titanic.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Rome—Rome imperial, bows her to the storm, / In the same dust and blackness, and we pass / The skeleton of her Titanic form, / Wrecks of another world, whose ashes still are warm."
— 1818, Lord Byron, “Canto IV”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XLVI, page 26:
"And still in the distracted distance we beheld the tumults of the outer concentric circles, and saw successive pods of whales, eight or ten in each, swiftly going round and round, like multiplied spans of horses in a ring; and so closely shoulder to shoulder, that a Titanic circus-rider might easily have overarched the middle ones, and so have gone round on their backs."
— 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Grand Armada”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, pages 430–431:
"Surely , one doesn't want another Titanic, with everyone sailing along in the serene belief that all will be well"
— 1995, Michael S. Dobbs-Higginson, Asia Pacific: Its Role in the New World Disorder, page 437:
""[…]We don't want another Titanic on our hands. Come on, folks, there's plenty of lifeboats for everybody. Make your way down.""
— 2006, Tracie Peterson, Summer of the Midnight Sun:
"It is time that we review them holistically. But is is not easy to move the world. This is a Titanic that will continue to steer towards the iceberg because of its momentum."
— 2015, Tofara Y Dube, Rise You Downtrodden Blacks:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ waves from the tsunami swallowed entire coastal towns in minutes.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The explorers were amazed by the ____ size of the massive iceberg that they spotted in the Arctic ocean today.