NEWSPAPER HEADLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does newspaper headline mean? 

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

1. the heading or caption of a newspaper article

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWSPAPER 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 ("newspaper 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 "newspaper 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 ("newspaper headline" is a part of...):

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