TITAN
What does "TITAN" mean?
A person or thing of enormous size, strength, or importance.
Meanings
- A person of exceptional power, influence, or achievement in a field. She became a titan of the publishing industry. figurative
- In Greek mythology, one of the elder gods, children of Uranus and Gaia, overthrown by the Olympians. The Titan Cronus swallowed his children to keep his throne.
- The largest moon of Saturn, the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere. Probes have found lakes of liquid methane on Titan. technical
Did you know?
- Saturn's moon Titan is the only moon in the solar system with a thick atmosphere - and it rains liquid methane there, filling lakes and rivers under an orange haze.
- The metal titanium was named for the Greek Titans by chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth in 1795, a nod to its giant strength.
Word origin
From Greek 'Titan', the name of the primordial deities born of Earth and Sky; of uncertain pre-Greek origin, later applied to anything of giant scale.
Remember it
TITAN = 'TIT-AN', a giant so big you say it twice: 'TI-TAN!' Bigger than an Olympian.
A little poem
They held the sky before the gods were born,
and lost it to their own bright, hungry sons-
even giants are a chapter, not the dawn.
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Wordplay
- Why did the Titan fail astronomy? It kept getting eclipsed by its own kids.
What it teaches
Every titan is eventually outgrown by what it raised; the throne is always on loan to the future.
Quick facts
What does TITAN mean?
A person or thing of enormous size, strength, or importance.
Is TITAN a valid word?
Yes — TITAN is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is TITAN?
TITAN has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does TITAN come from?
From Greek 'Titan', the name of the primordial deities born of Earth and Sky; of uncertain pre-Greek origin, later applied to anything of giant scale.
What can TITAN teach us?
Every titan is eventually outgrown by what it raised; the throne is always on loan to the future.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.