Library / English Dictionary

SUBTITLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Secondary or explanatory title

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("subtitle" is a kind of...):

title (a general or descriptive heading for a section of a written work)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen

Synonyms:

caption; subtitle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("subtitle" is a kind of...):

interlingual rendition; rendering; translation; version (a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language)

Holonyms ("subtitle" is a part of...):

film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)

Derivation:

subtitle (supply (a movie) with subtitles)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supply (a movie) with subtitles

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "subtitle" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Domain category:

performing arts (arts or skills that require public performance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue subtitle the movie

Derivation:

subtitle (translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen)

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