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- Dictionarytitled/ˈtʌɪtld/
adjective
- 1. (of a person) having a title indicating high social or official rank: "many titled guests were always invited"
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3 days ago · In some other countries, it is the sole or dominant language for historical reasons without being explicitly defined by law (such as in the United States and United Kingdom). It is a co-official language of the United Nations , the European Union , and many other international and regional organisations.
3 days ago · Obesity is typically defined as a substantial accumulation of body fat that could impact health. Medical organizations tend to classify people as obese based on body mass index (BMI) – a ratio of a person's weight in kilograms to the square of their height in meters .
3 days ago · Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei ( / ˌɡælɪˈleɪoʊ ˌɡælɪˈleɪ / GAL-il-AY-oh GAL-il-AY, US also / ˌɡælɪˈliːoʊ -/ GAL-il-EE-oh -, Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]) or simply Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.
4 days ago · Emperor, title designating the sovereign of an empire, conferred originally on rulers of the Roman Empire and on various later European rulers, including the Holy Roman emperors, the Russian tsars, and Napoleon Bonaparte. It has also been applied to certain non-European rulers, such as those of Ethiopia or Japan.
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5 days ago · When something is eponymous, it takes its own name as its title. For example, Foo Fighters' first album was eponymous — it was called "Foo Fighters."
5 days ago · Ralph Waldo Emerson (born May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts) was an American lecturer, poet, and essayist, the leading exponent of New England Transcendentalism. Early life and works. Ralph Waldo Emerson, undated colour engraving.
4 days ago · Rabindranath Tagore, the revered Bengali poet and polymath, left an enduring legacy through his profound literary works and became the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature.
