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# titanic

adjective (titanic; more titanic); proper noun (the Titanic)

«titanic» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Extremely big, strong or important; huge. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#m1)
2. the Titanic: a giant British passenger ship that hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic on its first voyage in 1912; more than 1,500 people died. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#m2)
3. In Greek myths, to do with the Titans, a race of giant gods. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#m3)

### In the lessons

In history lessons the Titanic is a famous disaster that taught people about safety at sea: there were not enough lifeboats, and afterwards the rules changed. As an ordinary adjective «titanic» describes something enormous — «a titanic struggle», «a titanic effort». Phrases: «the sinking of the Titanic», «a titanic battle».

### Examples

- The Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#x1)
- People said the Titanic was unsinkable, but they were wrong. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#x2)
- There were not enough lifeboats on the Titanic for everyone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#x3)
- The final was a titanic battle between the two best teams. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#x4)
- It took a titanic effort to clear the snow from the whole street. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#x5)
- In the myth, the gods fought a titanic war against the Titans. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#x6)
- My little brother's tantrum was titanic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/#x7)

### Note

Capital T and «the» for the ship: the Titanic. Small t for the adjective. Myth trap: the ship was never really «unsinkable»; that was a boast. «Titanic» is related to «titanium», a strong metal named after the Titans.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «titanic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/titanic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«titanic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/titanic.html) on Mova free.