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• subtitle — ► NOUN 1) (subtitles) captions displayed at the bottom of a cinema or television screen that translate or transcribe the dialogue or narrative. 2) a subordinate title of a published work. ► VERB ▪ provide with a subtitle or subtitles …   English terms dictionary

• subtitle — [sub′tīt΄ l] n. 1. a secondary or explanatory title, as of a book or play 2. a book title repeated at the top of the first page of text 3. one or more lines of text, as a translation of dialogue in a foreign language, appearing usually at the… …   English World dictionary

• subtitle — index caption Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• subtitle — (n.) 1825, subordinate or additional title, in reference to literary works, from SUB (Cf. sub ) under + TITLE (Cf. title). Applied to motion pictures first in 1909 …   Etymology dictionary

• Subtitle — A subtitle can refer to:* Subtitle (titling), an explanatory or alternate title of a book, play, film, musical work, etc., in addition to its main title * Subtitle (captioning), a textual version of a film or television program s dialogue that… …   Wikipedia

• subtitle — sub|ti|tle [ˈsʌbˌtaıtl] n 1.) subtitles [plural] the words printed over a film in a foreign language to translate what is being said by the actors ▪ a French film with English subtitles 2.) [singular] a second title below the main title in a book …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• subtitle — [[t]sʌ̱btaɪt(ə)l[/t]] subtitles 1) N COUNT 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 . 2) N PLURAL Subtitles are a …   English dictionary

• subtitle — UK [ˈsʌbˌtaɪt(ə)l] / US noun [countable] Word forms subtitle : singular subtitle plural subtitles 1) subtitles [plural] a translation of what people are saying in a foreign language film or television programme, that appears at the bottom of the… …   English dictionary

• subtitle — 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… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• subtitle — subtitular /sub tich euh leuhr, tit yeuh /, adj. /sub tuyt l/, n., v., subtitled, subtitling. n. 1. a secondary or subordinate title of a literary work, usually of explanatory character. 2. a repetition of the leading words in the full title of a …   Universalium