Definitions
provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawing
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin captiō (“deception, fraud”), from the past participle of capiō (“to take, to seize”) (English capture). Compare Middle English capcioun (“seizure, capture”).
Used in a sentence
“Some of the photographs are new and interesting, but many captions are amateurish, uninformative or simply careless.”
“(theater, performance production) By analogy, text in a similar system used in a performance venue for transcription of a live event.”
“1919 Thomas Welburn Hughes. A treatise on criminal law and procedure. The Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA. Sec. 557 (p. 378). The caption and asportation must be felonious.”
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