SUBTITLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subtitle mean? 

• SUBTITLE (noun)
  The noun SUBTITLE has 2 senses:

1. translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen

2. secondary or explanatory title

  Familiarity information: SUBTITLE used as a noun is rare.

• SUBTITLE (verb)
  The verb SUBTITLE has 1 sense:

1. supply (a movie) with subtitles

  Familiarity information: SUBTITLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBTITLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

caption; subtitle

Hypernyms ("subtitle" is a kind of...):

interlingual rendition; rendering; translation; version (a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language)

Holonyms ("subtitle" is a part of...):

film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)

Derivation:

subtitle (supply (a movie) with subtitles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Secondary or explanatory title

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("subtitle" is a kind of...):

title (a general or descriptive heading for a section of a written work)

• SUBTITLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they subtitle    ... he / she / it subtitles   
Past simple: subtitled   
Past participle: subtitled   
-ing form: subtitling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supply (a movie) with subtitles

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "subtitle" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Domain category:

performing arts (arts or skills that require public performance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue subtitle the movie

Derivation:

subtitle (translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen)