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NEWS STORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does news story mean?
• NEWS STORY (noun)
The noun NEWS STORY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: NEWS STORY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An article reporting news
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
news article; news story; newspaper article
Hypernyms ("news story" is a kind of...):
article (nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication)
Meronyms (parts of "news story"):
lead; lead-in; lede (the introductory section of a story)
opening line (the first line of a piece of writing (as a newspaper story))
shirttail (a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article)
Domain member category:
fast-breaking (occurring rapidly as a series of events in rapid succession)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "news story"):
lead; lead story (a news story of major importance)
personal (a short newspaper article about a particular person or group)
sidebar (a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story)
Holonyms ("news story" is a part of...):
newspaper; paper (a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements)
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