Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give too high a title to; claim too much for.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To give too high a title to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To give too high a
title to. - noun One of a set of
lines displayed above astage andmanually synchronized with the speech of theactors , rather like televisionsubtitles .
Etymologies
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over- + title
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