HEADLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does headline mean? 

• HEADLINE (noun)
  The noun HEADLINE has 1 sense:

1. the heading or caption of a newspaper article

  Familiarity information: HEADLINE used as a noun is very rare.

• HEADLINE (verb)
  The verb HEADLINE has 2 senses:

1. publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline

2. provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline

  Familiarity information: HEADLINE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEADLINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The heading or caption of a newspaper article

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

headline; newspaper headline

Hypernyms ("headline" is a kind of...):

head; header; heading (a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "headline"):

drop line; dropline; stagger head; staggered head; stephead; stepped line (a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right)

screamer (a sensational newspaper headline)

banner; streamer (a newspaper headline that runs across the full page)

Holonyms ("headline" is a part of...):

newspaper; paper (a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements)

Derivation:

headline (publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline)

headline (provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline)

• HEADLINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they headline    ... he / she / it headlines   
Past simple: headlined   
Past participle: headlined   
-ing form: headlining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "headline" is one way to...):

advertise; advertize; publicise; publicize (call attention to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

headline (the heading or caption of a newspaper article)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "headline" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Domain category:

publication; publishing (the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

headline (the heading or caption of a newspaper article)

headliner (a performer who receives prominent billing)

 Context examples 

Professor Munchausen—how's that for an inset headline?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Look at the headlines: ‘Crime in the City.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Listen to this, Mr. Holmes. The headlines are: ‘Mysterious Affair at Lower Norwood. Disappearance of a Well-known Builder. Suspicion of Murder and Arson. A Clue to the Criminal.’

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes sprang in his chair as if he had been stung when I read the headlines.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jupiter has not visited your romance sector in more than a decade, so this is headline news for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The neighbourhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines as The Kensington Horror, or The Stabbing Woman, or The Woman in Black.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The first reports of formative gullies on Mars in 2000 generated excitement and headlines because they suggested the presence of liquid water on the Red Planet, the eroding action of which forms gullies here on Earth.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

With government resolution No. 1430/2019, the state issued an indemnity bond to cover for HDT's 38.8 million euro loan, and daily Népszava covered the story with a headline pointing out that amount as the presumed price.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

So this wonderful incident, which would make such a headline for the old paper, must still wait its turn in the editorial drawer.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Underneath the vigorous headlines which our client had quoted, I read the following suggestive narrative: Late last night, or early this morning, an incident occurred at Lower Norwood which points, it is feared, to a serious crime.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)