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- 1. a British passenger liner, the largest ship in the world when it was built and supposedly unsinkable, that struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage in April 1912 and sank with the loss of 1,490 lives.
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The meaning of TITANIC is having great magnitude, force, or power : colossal. How to use titanic in a sentence. Did you know?
adjective. uk / taɪˈtænɪk / us. Add to word list. very large or important: He was the loser in the titanic struggle to own the company. a titanic figure in the world of business. (Definition of titanic from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Jul 13, 2024 · Titanic, British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14–15, 1912, during its maiden voyage, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, killing about 1,500 (see Researcher’s Note: Titanic) passengers and ship personnel.
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, 1,496 died, making the incident the deadliest sinking of a single ship at the time.
adjective. uk / taɪˈtænɪk / us. Add to word list. very large or important: He was the loser in the titanic struggle to own the company. a titanic figure in the world of business. (Definition of titanic from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
The Titanic was the name of the famous cruise ship that sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. This name was chosen not only because it was the largest passenger steamship of its time, but also because it was touted as a strong ship, specifically that it was “unsinkable.”
RMS Titanic, a British luxury liner that sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage in April 1912, with a loss of more than 1,500 lives.
Definition of titanic adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. Titanic Of or relating to the Titans. 2. a. Having great stature or enormous strength; huge or colossal: titanic creatures of the deep. b. Of enormous scope, power, or influence: "a deepening sense that some titanic event lay just beyond the horizon" (W. Bruce Lincoln). ti·tan′i·cal·ly adv. ti·tan·ic 2. (tī-tăn′ĭk, -tā′nĭk, tĭ-) adj.
TITANIC meaning: very great in size, force, or power gigantic.
