headline
pronunciation
How to pronounce headline in British English:
UK [ˈhedlaɪn]
How to pronounce headline in American English:
US [ˈhedlaɪn]
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- Noun:
- the heading or caption of a newspaper article
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- Verb:
- publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline
- provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline
Word Origin
- headline (n.)
- 1670s, from head (n.) in sense "heading of a book or chapter" (c. 1200) + line (n.). Originally a printers' term for the line at the top of a page containing the title and page number; used of the lines that form the title of a newspaper article from 1890, and transferred unthinkingly to broadcast media. Headlinese "language peculiar to headlines" is from 1927. Headlines "important news" is from 1908.
Example
- 1. Headline statistics flatter the reading prowess of latin americans .
- 2. Now that makes quite a headline .
- 3. Arouse interest with a compelling headline .
- 4. Headline writing is good practice for sentence writing .
- 5. Note that clear , no-nonsense headline won .