单词 | self-titled |
释义 | self-titledadj. 1. Having assumed or adopted a given title or status for oneself. ΚΠ 1788 World 22 July The bad Whigs of Old England, about the bad-bottom'd Whigs, A self-titled set, a vile prostitute clan. 1839 Northern Liberator 27 Apr. He seems..to have been the only one of the self-titled ‘Radicals’ in the House who had the good sense and moral courage to act. 1871 Boston Daily Advertiser 16 Dec. Pope Pius..must know that France, of all self-titled Catholic country refuges, is least desirable. 1921 Engin. World Nov. 344/1 Hsu Shih-Chang is only a self-titled president of the historical capital, having no legal basis to his election. 1962 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 4 164 Leaders who take pleasure in humiliating the self-titled aristocrats. 1995 Arena Dec. 51/1 Wherein Lester Bangs, the self-titled ‘Hotshot jivescamming rock magazinero’, drags you through his amphetamine-fuelled, stream-of-consciousness netherworld. 2. Of an album, CD, etc.: having a title that is the same as the performer’s or group's name. ΚΠ 1972 Arcadia (Calif.) Tribune 16 Nov. His first two records on Atlantic Records, the self-titled one and Album II, were purely acoustic. 1989 Q Mar. 18/2 Their excellent, self-titled first album might not exactly be a rush release. 1994 M.E.A.T. Sept. 4/3 Acoustically Inclined have released their first CD (self-titled) on Oh Yah! Records. 2015 M. Ramone & R. Herschlag Punk Rock Blitzkrieg (2016) vi. 128 Also on the playlist was the Ramones' self-titled album, which had just been released. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1788 |
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