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captioning

captioning is the present participle and gerund of caption.

Meaning of caption

Verb

caption (third-person singular simple present captions, present participle captioning, simple past and past participle captioned)

  1. To add captions to a text or illustration.
    • Only once the drawing is done will the letterer caption it.
  2. To add captions to a film or broadcast.

See all 8 meanings of caption

Noun

captioning (plural captionings)

  1. The act of assigning a caption.
    • Instead of dismissing all the differing readings her poems have been given, we need to account for their possibility in terms of the multiple captionings to which her poetry lends itself […]2019, Daniel Cottom, Ravishing Tradition: Cultural Forces and Literary History, page 103

Forms of captioning

pluralcaptionings

Words formed from captioning

Questions about captioning

What does captioning mean?
Captioning means the act of assigning a caption.
What is captioning the present participle and gerund of?
Captioning is the present participle and gerund of caption.
What part of speech is captioning?
Captioning is a noun.
What is the plural of captioning?
The plural of captioning is captionings.

Words near captioning in the dictionary

  1. caption
  2. captionable
  3. captioned
  4. captioner
  5. captioners
  6. captioning
  7. captionings
  8. captionless
  9. captionlessness
  10. captions
  11. captious

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: captioning (page history and authors); caption (page history and authors). 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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