Usually means: Text describing or explaining an image.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. caption: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. caption: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caption: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caption: Collins English Dictionary
  5. caption: Vocabulary.com
  6. Caption, caption: Wordnik
  7. caption: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. caption: Wiktionary
  9. caption: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. caption: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. caption: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. caption: Dictionary.com
  13. caption: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. caption: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CAPTION, Caption (comics convention), Caption (law), Caption: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Caption: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. caption: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. caption: Rhymezone
  19. caption: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. caption: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. caption: Free Dictionary
  22. caption: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. caption: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. caption: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. caption: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. caption: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. caption: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Derivatives (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. caption: Legal dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. caption: Encyclopedia

(Note: See captioned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (typography) The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
noun:  A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
noun:  (cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.
noun:  (law) The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.
noun:  (obsolete, law) A seizure or capture, especially of tangible property (chattel).
verb:  To add captions to a text or illustration.
verb:  To add captions to a film or broadcast.

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