body text

== English == === Noun === body text (uncountable) (of a book or other document) The main portion of the text, excluding the front matter, the back matter and floats. ==== Synonyms ==== body matter; see also Thesaurus:body matter ==== Coordinate terms ==== (main text of a document): running text (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 ==== === Further reading === “body text”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.