titans
persons or things of great strength or importance
TRANSLATION
--- titan = der Titan --- GOOGLE INDEX titan: approximately 240,000,000 Google hits
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titan = der Titan
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GOOGLE INDEX
titan: approximately 240,000,000 Google hitsMicrosoft is part of a wave of computer industry TITANS — with Apple, BlackBerry, Google and others — competing to play a more critical role in cars.
(Autoweek magazine)
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By the time they make their first $1 billion, most TITANS would have moved out of the stucco house they bought back in the 1950s. Not Warren Buffett.
(BusinessWeek magazine)
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GOOGLE INDEX
titan: approximately 240,000,000 Google hitsMicrosoft is part of a wave of computer industry TITANS — with Apple, BlackBerry, Google and others — competing to play a more critical role in cars.
(Autoweek magazine)
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By the time they make their first $1 billion, most TITANS would have moved out of the stucco house they bought back in the 1950s. Not Warren Buffett.
(BusinessWeek magazine)
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titan
noun
- a person or thing of very great strength, intellect, or importance
(Oxford English Dictionaries)
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Titan, and the corresponding adjective titanic, is one of several English words that originated from Greek mythology. The Titans were a primeval race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky), that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. They were massive immortal beings of incredible strength and stamina and were also the first group of Greek gods and goddesses.
Other words that derive from Greek mythology include:
- cereal = food made from grains, from Ceres the goddess of agriculture
- hypnosis = an artificially induced state of unconsciousness, from Hypnos the god of sleep
- nectar = fruit juice, from nectar the drink of the gods
- chaos = disorder and confusion, from khaos, the nothingness from which the universe was born
- nemesis = enemy, from Nemsis the god of retribution
- tantalize = tease or torture, from Tantalus, a figure from Greek mythology who was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit out of his grasp and the water always receding before he could eat or take a drink.
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SYNONYMS
giant, behemoth, bulk, colossus, elephant, goliath, hulk, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster
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"All automobile industry titans will be present at the conference."
noun
- a person or thing of very great strength, intellect, or importance
(Oxford English Dictionaries)
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Titan, and the corresponding adjective titanic, is one of several English words that originated from Greek mythology. The Titans were a primeval race of powerful deities, descendants of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky), that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. They were massive immortal beings of incredible strength and stamina and were also the first group of Greek gods and goddesses.
Other words that derive from Greek mythology include:
- cereal = food made from grains, from Ceres the goddess of agriculture
- hypnosis = an artificially induced state of unconsciousness, from Hypnos the god of sleep
- nectar = fruit juice, from nectar the drink of the gods
- chaos = disorder and confusion, from khaos, the nothingness from which the universe was born
- nemesis = enemy, from Nemsis the god of retribution
- tantalize = tease or torture, from Tantalus, a figure from Greek mythology who was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit out of his grasp and the water always receding before he could eat or take a drink.
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SYNONYMS
giant, behemoth, bulk, colossus, elephant, goliath, hulk, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"All automobile industry titans will be present at the conference."
