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/hˈɛdlˌaɪn/ Listen

noun

Headline n.

(Print.) The line at the head or top of a page.

(Naut.) See Headrope.

(Journalism) A title for an article in a newspaper, sometimes one line, sometimes more, set in larger and bolder type than the body of the article and indicating the subject matter or content of the article.

A similar title at the top of the newspaper indicating the most important story of the day; also, a title for an illustration or picture.

verb

headline v. t.

To mention in a headline.

To furnish with a headline (senses 1, 3, or 4).

To publicise prominently in an advertisement.

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Etymology of 'Headline'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... own hands, and as she waited talked briskly of the German occupation of the town. The Huns, it appeared, had been too hustled by the Allies to do much frightfulness beyond the usual looting, but they had inflicted enormous losses on the pigs of La Ferte. It reminded me of the satirical headline in a Paris newspaper, over a paragraph announcing a great slaughter of pigs in Germany owing to the shortage of maize—"Les Bosches s'entregorgent!" Madame told us with much spirit how she had saved her own pig, an endearing infant, by the intimation that a far more succulent ...

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