subheading
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English subheading
Noun
subheading (plural subheadings)
- Any of the headings under which each of the main divisions of a subject may be subdivided.
- 1981 May 9, Mimi Sheraton, “DE GUSTIBUS; WHEN IS FOOD RICH? IT'S ALL A QUESTION OF SEMANTICS”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 November 2020:
- And puritans give much the same warning in a manner suggesting that though the eating of rich foods is not among the seven deadly sins, it is at least a bona fide subheading under the general category of gluttony.
- 2019 September 27, Jane Rosenzweig, “The Whistle-Blower Knows How to Write”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 November 2025:
- Most subheadings don’t do much to enhance a document. The whistle-blower’s subheadings do what the best subheadings do: They structure the complaint and provide a clear outline of what the document contains: […]
- A heading or caption subordinate to a main headline, heading, or title especially when inserted as a divider between sections (as of a newspaper or periodical article or story or text of a book).
Synonyms
Translations
heading subdividing a subject
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a heading or caption subordinate to a main headline
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Categories:
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *upó
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kap- (seize)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kap- (head)
- English terms prefixed with sub-
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations