diff --git a/doc/source/commands.rst b/doc/source/commands.rst
index 5c8ea1b2c8..fae1fa6681 100644
--- a/doc/source/commands.rst
+++ b/doc/source/commands.rst
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ referring to both Compute and Volume quotas.
 * ``service``: (**Identity**) a cloud service
 * ``service provider``: (**Identity**) a resource that consumes assertions from an ``identity provider``
 * ``snapshot``: (**Volume**) a point-in-time copy of a volume
-* ``subnet``: (**Network**) - a pool of private IP addresses that can be assigned to instances or other resources
+* ``subnet``: (**Network**) - a contiguous range of IP addresses assigned to a network
 * ``token``: (**Identity**) a bearer token managed by Identity service
 * ``usage``: (**Compute**) display host resources being consumed
 * ``user``: (**Identity**) individual cloud resources users
diff --git a/openstackclient/network/v2/subnet.py b/openstackclient/network/v2/subnet.py
index cd0e52ffcb..627471252a 100644
--- a/openstackclient/network/v2/subnet.py
+++ b/openstackclient/network/v2/subnet.py
@@ -53,10 +53,10 @@ class ListSubnet(lister.Lister):
 
         data = self.app.client_manager.network.subnets()
 
-        headers = ('ID', 'Name', 'Network', 'CIDR')
+        headers = ('ID', 'Name', 'Network', 'Subnet')
         columns = ('id', 'name', 'network_id', 'cidr')
         if parsed_args.long:
-            headers += ('Project', 'DHCP', 'DNS Nameservers',
+            headers += ('Project', 'DHCP', 'Name Servers',
                         'Allocation Pools', 'Host Routes', 'IP Version',
                         'Gateway')
             columns += ('tenant_id', 'enable_dhcp', 'dns_nameservers',
diff --git a/openstackclient/tests/network/v2/test_subnet.py b/openstackclient/tests/network/v2/test_subnet.py
index 74b4d33283..5fca5edd99 100644
--- a/openstackclient/tests/network/v2/test_subnet.py
+++ b/openstackclient/tests/network/v2/test_subnet.py
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ class TestListSubnet(TestSubnet):
         'ID',
         'Name',
         'Network',
-        'CIDR'
+        'Subnet'
     )
     columns_long = columns + (
         'Project',
         'DHCP',
-        'DNS Nameservers',
+        'Name Servers',
         'Allocation Pools',
         'Host Routes',
         'IP Version',