titled

1. 1
   adjective

   Bearing a name or designation assigned to identify something.

   Each titled section guided readers straight to the information they needed.

   The gallery displayed titled works alongside a few anonymous sketches.

   Similarnamed

   Oppositeuntitled

2. 2
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of title.

   The author titled each chapter with a single word.

   The exhibit was titled by the curator herself.

   Note

   A regular verb, so one spelling serves the simple past (the author titled each chapter) and the participle after have or be. In the passive it sits close to the plain adjective. A book was titled by its author describes an act of naming, while a titled book describes the result. Entitle is its close partner when the title being given is the name of a work.

3. 3
   adjective

   Possessing a title of nobility and belonging to the peerage.

   Only titled guests were seated at the high table.

   His grandmother was titled, a baroness in her own right.

   Similararistocratic, noble

   Oppositeuntitled

   Note

   The narrower, social meaning of the general "bearing a title" adjective. Here the title is a rank such as duke, marquess, earl, viscount or baron. It attaches to groups as readily as to persons, as in a titled family or titled guests. It also does not take degrees: someone is titled or is not, and never very titled.

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