headline
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1.1
- noun
- /ˈhɛdˌlaɪn/
- Literature
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titular
- Games do make the headlines and they even make money.
- make headlines
- news headlines
- a newspaper headline
And this is not a headline above the fold.
- And this is not a headline above the fold.
- And I thought that's the top headline in The New York Times.
- Have we not learned headline readers are stupid?
- May I remind you of the headlines of the last six weeks?
- That morning, my same friend texted me the news headlines and the following comment.
- That's that's the headline of this.
- Hi Elon, no more headlines, just images.
- Yet we live in a world of headline readers versus practitioners.
- But that space under the headline is where you can ask yourself questions.
- And I'm walking home and I see a headline, you know, beauty queen slain.
- Tweets will make news, Tweets will decide the headlines of stories.
- So I read the headlines every day in New York at my desk.
- But before we get to that headline and the break, trivia.
Examples
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And this is not a headline above the fold.
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I recently received an email with a headline that made me do a double-take.
Academic text (2011) -
But that space under the headline is where you can ask yourself questions.
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I could already see the headline in the Washington Post.
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It's a clean headline and so it travels real quick.
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I think it's because they read the headline and not the whole paragraph.
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We form our opinions on headlines, not on research.
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Splashed across the top, the headlines announce the day's news of the Academy Award nominations.
Fiction book (1992) -
Headline reads: "Kansas cops slam doors; concert cancelled," 2nd headline: "Doors 3rd album out, sales up, magic down."
Fiction book (1991) -
The headline of the article caught my attention immediately as I flipped through the newspaper.
Synonyms
665
1.0
The name shown at the top of a book, chapter, film, or article
40
3.0
A large headline that runs across the top of a newspaper page
28
1.3
A short title at the top of a page that shows what follows
6
2.0
The title at the top of a newspaper article in large print
A very wide newspaper headline that runs across the whole front page
Short heading at the top of a page that shows what the text is about
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
6.5
A heading at the top of each page that shows the title or section
How Prominent
- Literature
15
2.7
- Literature
542
1.1
28
1.3
33
3.7
45
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Headline comes from the words head and line, where head means 'top' and line means 'a line of text', so a headline is the title at the top of a page that grabs a reader's attention.