Noun: caption
| Singular | caption |
| Plural | captions |
Sample Sentences
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Some of the photographs are new and interesting, but many captions are amateurish, uninformative or simply careless. [1964 September, “New Books: The History of Railways. By Erwin Berghaus. Barrie & Rockcliff. 35s.”, in Modern Railways, page 222:]
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(theater, performance production) By analogy, text in a similar system used in a performance venue for transcription of a live event.
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1919 Thomas Welburn Hughes. A treatise on criminal law and procedure. The Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA. Sec. 557 (p. 378).
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The caption and asportation must be felonious.
Nouns inflected like caption
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin captiō (“deception, fraud”), from the past participle of capiō (“to take, to seize”) (English capture). Compare Middle English capcioun (“seizure, capture”). See: Latin Nouns '
captiō', English Nouns '
capture', Middle English Nouns '
capcioun'.
Verbs referencing "caption"
Middle English Nouns
capcioun.