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 1517 lives.

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ti·tan·ic¹ (tī-tān'ĭk)

adj.

Titanic Of or relating to the Titans.
1. Having great stature or enormous strength; huge or colossal: titanic creatures of the deep.
2. 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·ic² (tī-tān'ĭk, -tā'nĭk, tĭ-)

adj. Relating to or containing titanium, especially with valence 4.

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Titanic

A British luxury ocean liner, thought to be unsinkable, which nevertheless sank on its first voyage in 1912 after running into an iceberg in the north Atlantic Ocean. More than fifteen hundred people drowned.

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