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Definition of caption verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

caption

verb

NAmE//ˈkæpʃn//

[usually passive] caption somethingVerb Forms present simple I / you / we / they caption

he / she / it captions

past simple captioned

-ing form captioning

to write a caption for a picture, photograph, etc. The cartoon was captioned “Americans on vacation.”

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