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surtexts

surtexts is the plural of surtext.

Meaning of surtext

Noun

surtext (plural surtexts)

  1. (rare) The explicit or surface meaning of a literary text, as opposed to the subtext.

Questions about surtexts

What is surtexts the plural of?
Surtexts is the plural of surtext.

Words near surtexts in the dictionary

  1. surtaxing
  2. Surtees
  3. Surteeses
  4. Surteesian
  5. surtext
  6. surtexts
  7. surthriver
  8. surthrivor
  9. Surti
  10. Surtis
  11. surtitle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surtexts (page history and authors); surtext (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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