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Titania

//tɪˈtɑːni.ə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    From Shakespeare's play A Midsummer-Night's Dream, the queen of the fairies.

    "As it is impossible to believe that this huge mountain can produce such an effect, at the expiration of a few minutes we become dupes of illusion, and the most grave thinker is ready to swear that there is in those shades, under some fantastic thicket, a solitary— a supernatural being—a sort of fairy—a Titania, who amuses herself by delicately parodying the music of mortals, and throwing down the half of a mountain every time she hears the report of a gun."

  2. 2
    The largest satellite of the planet Uranus.
Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of titanium dioxide. uncountable
  2. 2
    (Middle Ages) the queen of the fairies in medieval folklore wordnet
  3. 3
    a white powder used as a pigment for its high covering power and durability wordnet

Etymology

A style of Diana in Ovid, fem. of titanius, from Titan. As faeries were identified with Classical nymphs, the queen of the faeries was equated with Diana.

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