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subtitle
- /ˈsʌbtaɪtəl/
noun subtitles
- A heading below or after a title.
- Textual versions of the dialogue in films (and similar media such as television or video games), usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. Careful viewers have long observed that in the movies, one can not only watch but read cigarettes like subtitles — translating the action on the screen into another language which the camera registers but rarely foregrounds, a part of the thickness of the medium which is almost never brought into fo
verb subtitles · subtitling · subtitled
- To create subtitles for the dialogue in a film.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: caption, subhead, captioning, subheading, heading, transcript, header, tag, subsection, synch, sync, section, title, trad, closed, synchro
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noun heading below a title
| Español | subtítulo, título seccional / menor |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 副標題 /副标题 fù biāotí |
| Português | subtítulo |
| Français | sous-titre |
| Deutsch | Untertitel |
| Italiano | sottotitolo |
| Ελληνικά | υπότιτλος ypótitlos |
| Русский | подзаголо́вок podzagolóvok |
| العربية | عَنَاوِين فَرْعِيَّة ʕanāwīn farʕiyya, عُنْوَان فَرْعِيّ ʕunwān farʕiyy |
| עברית | כּוֹתֶרֶת מִשְׁנֶה |
noun textual versions of the dialog in films
| Español | subtítulo, subtítulos |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 자막 jamak |
| 日本語 | 字幕 jimaku |
| 中文 | 字幕 zìmù |
| हिन्दी | उपशीर्षक upśīrṣak, सबटाइटल sabṭāiṭal |
| Kiswahili | mada ndogo |
| Português | legenda |
| Français | sous-titre |
| Deutsch | Untertitel |
| Italiano | sottotitolo |
| Ελληνικά | υπότιτλος ypótitlos, υπότιτλοι ypótitloi |
| Română | subtitlu |
| Русский | субти́тр subtítr, субти́тры subtítry |
| Tiếng Việt | phụ đề, sub |
| العربية | تَرْجَمَة tarjama, سَتْرَجَة satraja |
| עברית | כְּתוּבִית ktuvít |
verb to create subtitles
| Español | subtitular |
|---|---|
| Português | legendar |
| Français | sous-titrer |
| Deutsch | untertiteln |
| Italiano | sottotitolare |
| Ελληνικά | υποτιτλίζω ypotitlízo |
| Tiếng Việt | sub |
| العربية | تَرْجَمَ tarjama |
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title = {subtitle},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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