subject heading
subject heading noun: the name of a category in which a bibliographical record is included.
Noun
subject heading (plural subject headings)
- The name of a category in which a bibliographical record is included.
- Kings of England, for instance, is a good subject heading because the preposition can be omitted only with difficulty and lead to statements that some patron of the library will delight in telling the librarian are untrue. English Kings, for instance, would be false so far as James I is concerned...1986, Jay Elwood Daily, Organizing Nonprint Materials
- A drama student interested in the avant-garde "Living Theatre" group of the 1960s found that the right subject heading to use in the Humanities Index is "Experimental theatre."1998, Thomas Mann, The Oxford Guide to Library Research
subject heading meaning in Tamil and Kannada
subject heading in Tamil
- பொருள் தலைப்புநிரல்
subject heading in Kannada
- ವಿಷಯ ಶೀರ್ಷಿಕೆ, ವಿಷಯಾನುಕ್ರಮಣಿಕೆ, ವಿಷಯದ ಶಿರೋನಾಮೆ
Forms of subject heading
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Questions about subject heading
- What does subject heading mean?
- Subject heading means the name of a category in which a bibliographical record is included.
- What is subject heading in Tamil?
- Subject heading in Tamil is பொருள் தலைப்புநிரல். See Subject heading meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is subject heading?
- Subject heading is a noun.
- What is the plural of subject heading?
- The plural of subject heading is subject headings.
Words near subject heading in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: subject heading (page history and authors); subject heading (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subject heading (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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