body text

English

Noun

body text (uncountable)

Within a book or other document, the main portion of text, excluding the front matter and back matter.
1. Most especially, the running text, exclusive of floats.

Synonyms

body matter; see also Thesaurus:body matter

Coordinate terms

(section of a book): front matter, back matter, plates
(document elements in pagination): floats: figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament
(types of text, most generally): see: text § Hyponyms

Translations

main portion of text

Chinese:
Mandarin: 正文 (zh) (zhèngwén)
Dutch: binnenwerk (nl) n, hoofdwerk (nl) n
Faroese: breyðtekstur m, høvuðstekstur m
Finnish: leipäteksti (fi)
French: corps du texte m
German: Mengentext m, Textkörper m, Brottext m, Haupttext m
Hungarian: kenyérszöveg
Norwegian:
Bokmål: brødtekst m or f

Nynorsk: brødtekst m or f

Further reading

“body text”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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