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# surtitle

«surtitle» in Mova's school dictionary: **words shown on a screen above the stage at an opera or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a surtitle, surtitles); verb (surtitle, surtitled — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

Surtitles are words shown on a screen above the stage at an opera or play, giving a translation of what is being sung or said in another language, or the words for people who cannot hear well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surtitle/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In music and drama lessons or on a theatre trip, pupils may see surtitles above the stage, for example when an opera is sung in Italian or German. They are like subtitles on a film, but above a stage. Phrases: «read the surtitles», «with English surtitles».

### examples

- The opera was in Italian, but there were English surtitles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surtitle/#x1)
- We read the surtitles above the stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surtitle/#x2)
- Surtitles help deaf audience members follow the play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surtitle/#x3)
- It was hard to watch the singers and read the surtitles at the same time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surtitle/#x4)
- The theatre shows surtitles on a long screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surtitle/#x5)
- Without the surtitles, I would not have understood the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surtitle/#x6)

### note

Usually plural: «surtitles». «Sur-» means «above» (from French). Compare «subtitles», which are at the bottom of a film or TV screen.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «surtitle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surtitle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.