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Synonyms for head-lines

noun information, revelation

Antonyms for head-lines

Word Origin & History

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 newspapers from 1890, and transferred unthinkingly to broadcast media. Headlinese "language peculiar to headlines" is from 1927. Headlines "important news" is from 1908.

Example Sentences for head-lines

There were no head-lines likely to arrest any man's attention.

What I mean by that question is, who wrote these head-lines?

Head-lines of the newspapers are almost American in size and sensation.

So the morning papers all gave Kedzie Thropp the hospitality of their head-lines.

He dreaded the head-lines, as a kind of invasion of the bridal chamber.

Meanwhile, the papers will speak tearfully of me in their head-lines—at least, I hope they will.

The literary misogynists propounded the same query—in the head-lines, at that!

To-morrow his name would be in the head-lines of every newspaper in the world.

He opened his paper now and glanced at the head-lines and at the Monday morning ads.

Mechanically she read the head-lines: Mortimore Banks Crash!