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subtag

subtag noun: a tag that is secondary or subordinate to another tag.

Noun

subtag (plural subtags)

  1. A tag that is secondary or subordinate to another tag.

Verb

subtag (third-person singular simple present subtags, present participle subtagging, simple past and past participle subtagged)

  1. (transitive) To apply a secondary or subordinate tag to.
    • Audio tracks were tagged by artist, and then subtagged by title and genre.

Forms of subtag

Noun
pluralsubtags
Verb
third-person singular presentsubtags
present participlesubtagging
past participlesubtagged
pastsubtagged

Origin of subtag

From sub- + tag.

Questions about subtag

What does subtag mean?
Subtag means a tag that is secondary or subordinate to another tag.
What part of speech is subtag?
Subtag can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of subtag?
The plural of subtag is subtags.

Words near subtag in the dictionary

  1. subtabulating
  2. subtabulation
  3. subtabulations
  4. subtack
  5. subtacks
  6. subtag
  7. subtagged
  8. subtagging
  9. subtags
  10. subtalar
  11. subtangent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subtag (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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