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Meaning of Subtitle | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
ˈsʌbtaɪtəl

Definitions

  1. A heading below or after a title.
  2. Textual versions of the dialogue in films (and similar media such as television or video games), usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Equivalents

Български субтитри
Cymraeg isteitl isteitlo
Euskara azpititulu
Gàidhlig fo-thiotal
עברית כתובית
हिन्दी उपशीर्षक
Magyar alcím felirat
Հայերեն ենթագիր
Bahasa Indonesia subjudul sulih teks takarir teks
Íslenska kvikmyndatexti texti
日本語 サブタイトル 傍題 副題 字幕
ქართული ქვესათაური
Қазақша субтитр
한국어 자막
Kurdî textî
Lietuvių subtitras
Română subtitlu
Slovenčina titulok
Svenska texta textremsa undertext undertitel
Kiswahili mada ndogo
Türkçe altyazı
Tiếng Việt phụ đề sub

Examples

“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 focus. […] The cigarette in the scene serves as a subtext, a mute caption or subtitle, sometimes accompanying, sometimes contradicting or diverting the explicit premise of the action or the open meaning of signs.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
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