headline
[noun]
Synonyms: head, heading

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Related Words: banner, banner head, bannerline, scarehead, screamer, spreadhead

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English Thesaurus: newspaper, paper, the press, the media, tabloid, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. head‧line¹ /ˈhedlaɪn/ noun [countable]

1. the title of a newspaper report, which is printed in large letters above the report:
a paper carrying the front-page headline: ‘Space Aliens meet with President’

2. the headlines the important points of the main news stories that are read at the beginning of a news programme on radio or television

3. make/grab (the) headlines (also be in/hit the headlines) to be reported in many newspapers and on radio and television:
a scandal that grabbed the headlines for weeks
The former MP found himself back in the headlines again.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. headline² verb

1. [intransitive and transitive] to appear as the main performer or band in a show:
Eminem is headlining at the festival this year.

2. [transitive usually passive] to give a headline to an article or story

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

headline
noun
I. title of an article in a newspaper
ADJ. newspaper, tabloid ‘Carnage at Airport’, screamed the tabloid headline.
banner, front-page | screaming | lurid lurid headlines about the sex lives of the stars
sporting, sports
VERB + HEADLINE carry, have, run The Guardian carried the front-page headline ‘Drugs Firms Shamed’.
read, scan, see I just had time to scan the headlines before leaving for work.
be in, capture, dominate, grab, hit, hog, make ~s She's always in the headlines. He always manages to grab the headlines. The hospital hit the headlines when a number of suspicious deaths occurred. The story has been hogging the headlines for weeks. The story was important enough to make the headlines.
HEADLINE + VERB proclaim sth, read sth, say sth, scream sth The Sunday Observer had a headline saying, ‘Pop Star Arrested on Drugs Charges’.
HEADLINE + NOUN news ‘Queen Mother goes on Holiday’ is hardly headline news!
PREP. in a/the ~ The most unusual fact in the story is often used in the headline.
under a/the ~ The Daily Gazette ran a story under the headline ‘Pope's Last Words’.
with a/the ~ a story in the newspaper with the headline ‘Woman Gives Birth on Train’
~ about There was a banner headline about drugs in schools.
PHRASES make headline news The engagement of the two tennis stars made headline news.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

headline
II. the headlines: main news stories on TV/radio
ADJ. news
VERB + HEADLINE hear, listen to Let's just hear the news headlines.
look at, see, watch

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

headline

a front-page headline
The newspaper's front-page headline read simply 'Prime Minister resigns'.
a big headline (=a headline that a lot of people are interested in)
Celebrity divorces have made big headlines.
a banner headline (=a very large headline across the top of the page)
Le Monde ran its famous banner headline ' We are all Americans now'.
national/international headlines
The story made national headlines.
a newspaper headline
The story dominated newspaper headlines around the world.
a tabloid headline (=a headline in a newspaper that has a lot of stories about famous people, sex etc)
One tabloid headline read 'Doctor of Death'.
be in the headlines (=to be reported in many newspapers as an important story)
The singer was back in the headlines for partying every night.
make/grab (the) headlines (=to be reported in many newspapers as an important story)
Madonna's adoption of the child grabbed world headlines.
hit the headlines (=make the headlines)
Crane hit the headlines after she was arrested for the murder of her husband.
dominate the headlines (=to be the story that is most often reported in newspapers)
News from Iraq continued to dominate the headlines.
have/carry a headline
The Times carried the headline ‘7.4 Earthquake hits Los Angeles.’
run a headline (=use a headline)
One tabloid paper ran the headline: ‘Disney Theme Park Found On Mars’.
read a headline
I just read the main headlines.
the headlines read/say (=the headlines say something)
The next morning’s headlines read: ‘Moors Search for Missing Boys’.
headline news
The protests made headline news.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

newspaper:
The New York Times is a popular daily newspaper.
paper a newspaper. Paper is more common than newspaper in everyday English:
There was an interesting article in the local paper today.
the Sunday papers
the press newspapers and news magazines in general, and the people who write for them:
the freedom of the press
The press are always interested in stories about the royal family.
the media newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and the Internet, considered as a group that provides news and information:
This issue has received a lot of attention in the media.
Her public image was shaped by the media.
tabloid a newspaper that has small pages, a lot of photographs, short stories, and not much serious news:
The tabloids are full of stories about her and her boyfriend.
broadsheet British English a serious newspaper printed on large sheets of paper, with news about politics, finance, and foreign affairs:
the quality broadsheets
the nationals the newspapers that give news about the whole country where they are printed, in contrast to local newspapers:
The results of the nationwide survey became headlines in the nationals.
the dailies the daily newspapers:
The dailies reported the story.
article a piece of writing in a newspaper about a particular subject:
an article on the education reforms
report a piece of writing in a newspaper about an event:
newspaper reports on the war
story a report in a newspaper about an event, especially one that is not very serious or reliable:
You can’t always believe what you read in newspaper stories.
a headline the title of an important newspaper article, printed in large letters above the article. The headlines are the titles of the most important stories on the front page:
The singer’s drug problem has been constantly in the headlines.
front page the page on the front of a newspaper which has the most important news stories:
The story was all over the front page.
section/pages the pages in a newspaper dealing with a particular area of news such as sports, business, or entertainment:
the financial pages of The Times
the arts section
editorial the page of a newspaper on which the editor of a newspaper and other people express their opinions about the news, rather than just giving facts:
an editorial on the vaccination programme
column an article on a particular subject or by a particular writer that appears regularly:
his weekly column on gardening

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