caption
/ˈkæp.ʃən/
caption noun: the descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
Noun
caption (plural captions)
- The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
- A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
- Some of the photographs are new and interesting, but many captions are amateurish, uninformative or simply careless.1964 September, “New Books: The History of Railways. By Erwin Berghaus. Barrie & Rockcliff. 35s.”, in Modern Railways, page 222
- A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.
- (theater, performance production) By analogy, text in a similar system used in a performance venue for transcription of a live event.
- The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.
- A seizure or capture, especially of tangible property (chattel).
- The caption and asportation must be felonious.1919 Thomas Welburn Hughes. A treatise on criminal law and procedure. The Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA. Sec. 557 (p. 378).
- A story that is embedded in a pre-existing image (sometimes with image manipulation)
Verb
caption (third-person singular simple present captions, present participle captioning, simple past and past participle captioned)
- To add captions to a text or illustration.
- Only once the drawing is done will the letterer caption it.
- To add captions to a film or broadcast.
caption meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
caption in Hindi
- कैप्शन
caption in Tamil
- தலைப்பு, கவர் தலைப்பு, கவர் வாசகம், படவிளக்க, முகப்புப்படம், குறைகாணும் இயல்புடைய
caption in Marathi
- descriptive title or heading of (part of) a document
- मथळा mathḷā
caption in Urdu
- کیپشن
More languagesFewer languages
- caption in Bengali
- শিরোনাম śirōnam
- caption in Telugu
- క్యాప్షన్
- caption in Malayalam
- അടിക്കുറിപ്പ് aṭikkuṟippŭ
- caption in Kannada
- ಶೀರ್ಷಿಕೆ, ಶಿರೋನಾಮ, ತಲೆಬರಹ, ಹೆಸರು
- caption in Gujarati
- કેપ્શન, કૅપ્શન
- caption in Odia
- କ୍ଯ଼ାପସନ, କ୍ଯ଼ାପସନ୍, କ୍ଯ଼ାପ୍ସନ୍
- caption in Nepali
- क्याप्सन, क्यापसन, क्याप्शन
- caption in Malay
- sari kata
- caption in Indonesian
- takarir
Examples of caption in a sentence
- It's important for TV shows to provide closed captioning for the deaf.
- This meme generator lets you make your own memes by adding a caption to existing images, or by uploading your own image.
- Like many dwerking videos, this original video has an unserious tone, given away by its POV caption.
Forms of caption
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | captions |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | captions |
| present participle | captioning |
| past participle | captioned |
| past | captioned |
Origin of caption
Borrowed from Latin captiō (“deception, fraud”), from the past participle of capiō (“to take, to seize”) (English capture). Compare Middle English capcioun (“seizure, capture”).
Words formed from caption
- captionless
- encaption
- miscaption
- recaption
- subcaption
- supercaption
- captionable
- captioned
- captioner
- captioning
- closed caption
- closed-caption
- closed captions
- closed captioned
- closed-captioned
- close captioned
- close-captioned
- closed captioning
- closed-captioning
- open caption
- open-caption
- open captions
- real time caption
- real-time caption
- real time captioning
- real-time captioning
Phrases with caption
Questions about caption
- What does caption mean?
- Caption means the descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
- What is caption in Hindi?
- Caption in Hindi is कैप्शन. See Caption meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is caption?
- Caption can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce caption?
- Caption is pronounced /ˈkæp.ʃən/.
- What is the plural of caption?
- The plural of caption is captions.
Words near caption in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: caption (page history and authors); caption (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); caption (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); caption (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); শিরোনাম (Bengali) (page history and authors); caption (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); അടിക്കുറിപ്പ് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); caption (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); caption (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); caption (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); caption (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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