caption

  • noun 1 a title or brief explanation appended to an illustration or cartoon. 2 a piece of text appearing on screen as part of a film or television broadcast.

  • verb provide with a caption.

  — ORIGIN originally in the sense capture: from Latin, from capere ‘take, seize’.

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