subtitle
/ˈsʌbtaɪtəl/
subtitle noun: a heading below or after a title.
Noun
subtitle (plural subtitles)
- A heading below or after a title.
- Textual versions of the dialogue in films (and similar media such as television or video games), usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.
- Careful viewers have long observed that in the movies, one can not only watch but read cigarettes like subtitles — translating the action on the screen into another language which the camera registers but rarely foregrounds, a part of the thickness of the medium which is almost never brought into...1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9
Verb
subtitle (third-person singular simple present subtitles, present participle subtitling, simple past and past participle subtitled)
subtitle meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
subtitle in Hindi
- textual versions of the dialog in films
- उपशीर्षक upśīrṣak, सबटाइटल sabṭāiṭal
subtitle in Tamil
- heading below a title
- துணை தலைப்ப tuṇai talaippa
subtitle in Urdu
- textual versions of the dialog in films
- ذَیلِی عُنْوَان zailī 'unvān, سَب ٹائِٹَل sab ṭāiṭal
subtitle in Bengali
- textual versions of the dialog in films
- উপাখ্যা upakkha
More languagesFewer languages
- subtitle in Telugu
- ఉపశీర్షిక, ఉపశీర్షకము, ఉపశీర్షకం
- subtitle in Malayalam
- ഉപശീർഷകം
- subtitle in Kannada
- ಉಪಶೀರ್ಷಿಕೆ, ಉಪನಾಮ, ಭಾಷಾಂತರದ ಶೀರ್ಷಿಕೆ, ಒಳಒಕ್ಕಣೆ
- subtitle in Gujarati
- ઉપશીર્ષક
- subtitle in Arabic
- عَنَاوِين فَرْعِيَّة ʕanāwīn farʕiyya, عُنْوَان فَرْعِيّ ʕunwān farʕiyy, تَرْجَمَة tarjama, سَتْرَجَة satraja
- subtitle in Malay
- subtajuk, sari kata
- subtitle in Indonesian
- judul bawah, subjudul, teks, subtitel
- subtitle in Thai
- บทบรรยายใต้ภาพ bòt-ban-yaai-dtâi-pâap
- subtitle in Vietnamese
- phụ đề, sub
Examples of subtitle in a sentence
- My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to burn them in.
- The widespread use of subtitles felt, to me, like a lurch backward toward the silent-film era.
- He's got this book tour- what's the subtitle of his book?
Forms of subtitle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | subtitles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | subtitles |
| present participle | subtitling |
| past participle | subtitled |
| past | subtitled |
Origin of subtitle
From sub- + title.
Words formed from subtitle
Questions about subtitle
- What does subtitle mean?
- Subtitle means a heading below or after a title.
- What is subtitle in Hindi?
- Subtitle in Hindi is उपशीर्षक (upśīrṣak), सबटाइटल (sabṭāiṭal). See Subtitle meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is subtitle?
- Subtitle can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce subtitle?
- Subtitle is pronounced /ˈsʌbtaɪtəl/.
- What is the plural of subtitle?
- The plural of subtitle is subtitles.
Words near subtitle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: subtitle (page history and authors); subtitle (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); subtitle (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); subtitle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); subtitle (Gujarati, 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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