Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

subject heading

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English

Syllables: sub-jec-t -head-ing
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The name of a category in which a bibliographical record is included.

Example Sentences

"Kings of England, for instance, is a good subject heading because the preposition can be omitted only with difficulty and lead to statements that some patron of the library will delight in telling the librarian are untrue. English Kings, for instance, would be false so far as James I is concerned, because he was Scottish, and George I, because he was German."
"A drama student interested in the avant-garde "Living Theatre" group of the 1960s found that the right subject heading to use in the Humanities Index is "Experimental theatre.""

Inflected Forms

subject headings (plural)

Phrases

index term subject term authorized term

Frequently Paired Words

index term descriptor subject term authorized term

Questions

What does subject heading mean?: The name of a category in which a bibliographical record is included.

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