Other forms: subtitles
A subtitle is words at the bottom of a screen giving the speech in text. Turn on the subtitles, English subtitles, read the subtitle.
Subtitles translate or transcribe the dialogue; captions also describe the sounds, which is what deaf viewers need. A large and growing share of viewers keep them on all the time, partly because modern sound mixes bury the speech under everything else.
1nounsubtitleWords at the bottom of a screen giving the speech in text.
“The film was in Korean, so we watched it with English subtitles.”
subtitle is a text.
Old English
titul
Middle English
title
English
title
English, today
subtitle
From sub- + title. title comes from Middle English title, from Old English titul. From Middle English title, titel, from Old English titul (“title, heading, superscription”), from Latin titulus (“title, inscription”). a doublet of tilde and titer/titre and titlo and tittle and titulus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA