Home › Words › O › overtitleovertitleovertitle means one of a set of lines displayed above a stage and manually synchronized with the speech of the actors, rather like television subtitles.EtymologyFrom over- + title.nounOne of a set of lines displayed above a stage and manually synchronized with the speech of the actors, rather like television subtitles.verbTo give too high a title or status to.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).