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subject headings

subject headings is the plural of subject heading.

Meaning of subject heading

Noun

subject heading (plural subject headings)

  1. 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

Questions about subject headings

What is subject headings the plural of?
Subject headings is the plural of subject heading.

Words near subject headings in the dictionary

  1. subject clause
  2. subject clauses
  3. subject complement
  4. subject complements
  5. subject heading
  6. subject headings
  7. subject indexing
  8. subject matter
  9. subject matter jurisdiction
  10. subject matters
  11. subject of labor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subject headings (page history and authors); subject heading (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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