Adjacent Words

subtitle definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen [syn: subtitle, caption]
2: secondary or explanatory title v
1: supply (a movie) with subtitles

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 1825 1. a secondary or explanatory title 2. a printed statement or fragment of dialogue appearing on the screen between the scenes of a silent motion picture or appearing as a translation at the bottom of the screen during the scenes of a motion picture or television show in a foreign language II. transitive verb Date: 1891 to give a subtitle to

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a secondary or additional title of a book etc. 2 a printed caption at the bottom of a film etc., esp. translating dialogue. --v.tr. provide with a subtitle or subtitles.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(subtitles) 1. The subtitle of a piece of writing is a second title which is often longer and explains more than the main title. 'Kathleen' was, as its 1892 subtitle asserted, 'An Irish Drama'. N-COUNT 2. Subtitles are a printed translation of the words of a foreign film that are shown at the bottom of the picture. The dialogue is in Spanish, with English subtitles. N-PLURAL

Moby Thesaurus

acknowledgments, back, back matter, banner, banner head, bastard title, bibliography, caption, catch line, catchword, colophon, contents, contents page, copyright page, dedication, drop head, dropline, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, epigraph, errata, flyleaf, folio, fore edge, foreword, front matter, half-title page, hanger, head, head up, heading, headline, imprint, index, inscription, introduction, jump head, leaf, legend, makeup, motto, overline, page, preface, preliminaries, recto, reverso, rubric, running head, running title, scarehead, screamer, signature, spread, spreadhead, streamer, subhead, subheading, superscription, table of contents, tail, text, title, title page, trim size, type page, verso