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Meaning of subject heading | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The name of a category in which a bibliographical record is included.

Equivalents

Deutsch Sachbegriff

Examples

“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, because he was Scottish, and George I, because he was German.”
“A drama student interested in the avant-garde "Living Theatre" group of the 1960s found that the right subject heading to use⟳ in the Humanities Index is "Experimental theatre."”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

subject indexing subject matter subject matter jurisdiction subject of labor subject pronoun subjectability

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