running text

English

Noun

running text (countable and uncountable, plural running texts)

1. The main body of a document; text in the form of sentences and paragraphs, as distinct from headings, captions, footnotes, and other added content.

Related terms

• body copy
• body text

Translations

body of text

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正文 (zh) (zhèngwén)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: lopende tekst m, broodtekst (nl) m
• Finnish: leipäteksti (fi)
• French: texte courant m
• German: Fließtext (de), Lauftext m, fortlaufender Text m
• Hungarian: kenyérszöveg
• Norwegian: brødtekst
• Portuguese: texto corrido m
• Spanish: texto corrido m
• Swedish: löpande text, löptext, brödtext (sv)

References

• “running text”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.