overtitle
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]overtitle (third-person singular simple present overtitles, present participle overtitling, simple past and past participle overtitled)
Noun
[edit]overtitle (plural overtitles)
- (chiefly in the plural) One of a set of lines displayed above a stage and manually synchronized with the speech of the actors, rather like television subtitles.
References
[edit]- “overtitle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.