overtitle

English

Etymology

over- +‎ title

Verb

overtitle (third-person singular simple present overtitles, present participle overtitling, simple past and past participle overtitled)

1. To give too high a title to.

Noun

overtitle (plural overtitles)

1. (chiefly in the plural) One of a set of lines displayed above a stage and manually synchronized with the speech of the actors, rather like television subtitles.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “overtitle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)