body text

English

Noun

body text (uncountable)

1. Within a book or other document, the main portion of text, excluding the front matter and back matter.
   1. Most especially, the running text, exclusive of floats.

Synonyms

• body matter; see also Thesaurus:body matter

Coordinate terms

• (section of a book): front matter, back matter, plates
• (document elements in pagination): floats: figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament
• (types of text, most generally): see: text § Hyponyms

Translations

main portion of text

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正文 (zh) (zhèngwén)

• Dutch: binnenwerk (nl) n, hoofdwerk (nl) n
• Faroese: breyðtekstur m, høvuðstekstur m
• Finnish: leipäteksti (fi)
• French: corps du texte m
• German: Mengentext m, Textkörper m, Brottext m, Haupttext m
• Hungarian: kenyérszöveg
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brødtekst m or f

  Nynorsk: brødtekst m or f

Further reading

• “body text”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.