headline

See also: head line

English

The part marked 6 is the headline

Etymology

From head +‎ line.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛd.laɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛdlaɪn

Noun

headline (plural headlines)

1. (journalism) The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article.

   Synonym: hed

   The headline on today's newspaper reads "John Doe Wins Wood-Splitting Competition."

   • 1985, Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”, in Songs from the Big Chair‎^[1], performed by Tears for Fears:

     Say that you'll never, never, never, never need it
     One headline, why believe it?
     Everybody wants to rule the world

   • 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist‎^[2], volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

     Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.

2. (printing, dated) The line at the top of a page containing the folio or number of the page.
3. (entertainment) The top-billed attraction.

   Synonym: headliner

4. (nautical) A headrope.
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Coordinate terms

• (heading): byline, dateline

Derived terms

• Betteridge's law of headlines
• coheadline
• grab the headlines
• hammer headline
• headline-ese
• headline-grabber
• headlinese
• headline style
• hit the headlines
• make the headlines
• nonheadline
• running headline
• scarehead
• subheadline

Translations

heading or title of an article

• Arabic: مَانْشِيت m (manšēt), مَانْشِيت m (manšīt), عُنْوَان رَئِيسِيّ m (ʕunwān raʔīsiyy)
• Azerbaijani: sərlövhə, başlıq (az)
• Belarusian: загало́вак m (zahalóvak)
• Bengali: শীর্ষ সংবাদ (śīrṣa-śoṅbad), সংবাদ শিরোনাম (śoṅbad-śirōnām), শিরোনাম (bn) (śirōnām)
• Bulgarian: загла́вие (bg) n (zaglávie)
• Burmese: သတင်းခေါင်းစဉ် (my) (sa.tang:hkaung:cany) (news headline)
• Catalan: titular (ca) m
• Chichewa: mutu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 標題 / 标题 (zh) (biāotí)

• Czech: titulek (cs) m
• Danish: rubrik n
• Dutch: kop (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĉeftitolo, kaplinio, supra paĝotitolo
• Estonian: pealkiri (et)
• Finnish: otsikko (fi), uutisotsikko (fi)
• French: titre (fr) m, manchette (fr) f
• Galician: titular (gl) m
• Georgian: ჰედლაინი (hedlaini)
• German: Schlagzeile (de) f (newspaper), Überschrift (de) f
• Hawaiian: pōʻōlelo
• Hindi: शीर्षक (hi) m (śīrṣak)
• Hungarian: főcím (hu), szalagcím (hu)
• Indonesian: sari berita (id)
• Italian: titolo (it) m
• Japanese: 見出し (ja) (みだし, midashi), 標題 (ja) (ひょうだい, hyōdai), ヘッドライン (heddorain)
• Kazakh: тақырыпат (taqyrypat)
• Korean: 표제(標題) (ko) (pyoje), 표제(表題) (ko) (pyoje), 헤드라인 (ko) (hedeurain)
• Latvian: virsraksts m
• Lithuanian: antraštė f
• Macedonian: заглавие n (zaglavie)
• Malay: tajuk berita
• Malayalam: തലക്കെട്ട് (ml) (talakkeṭṭŭ)
• Maori: upoko kōrero
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: гарчиг (mn) (garčig)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overskrift (no) m or f

• Occitan: títol (oc) m
• Persian: تیتر (fa) (titr), عنوان (fa) ('onvân), سرصفحه (fa) (sarsafhe), سرخط (sarxat)
• Polish: nagłówek (pl) m
• Portuguese: manchete (pt) f
• Romanian: titlu (ro) n
• Russian: заголо́вок (ru) m (zagolóvok), загла́вие (ru) n (zaglávije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: glavni naslov m

• Slovak: titulok m
• Spanish: titular (es) m, encabezado (es) m
• Swahili: taarifa (sw)
• Swedish: rubrik (sv) n (newspaper)
• Tajik: сарлавҳа (sarlavha), унвон (tg) (unvon)
• Thai: หัวเรื่อง (hǔua-rʉ̂ʉang), หัวข่าว (hǔua-kàao)
• Turkish: başlık (tr), manşet (tr)
• Ukrainian: заголо́вок (uk) m (zaholóvok)
• Urdu: شہ سرخی (sheh surxī), سرخی (surxī), سرنامہ (sar-nāma), عنوان (unwān)
• Uzbek: sarlavha (uz)
• Vietnamese: tiêu đề (vi)

top-billed attraction

• Finnish: pääesittäjä (performer), vetonaula (fi)
• Indonesian: pentas utama
• Polish: główna atrakcja f
• Portuguese: atração principal f
• Swedish: huvudakt (sv) c

See also

• Glossary of journalism: Article components

Verb

headline (third-person singular simple present headlines, present participle headlining, simple past and past participle headlined)

1. To give a headline to a page or section of a text.
   • 1974 February 2, Charles Bonnell, “Typewriter In Hand”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 4:

     Once again I take typewriter in hand to express my opinion on two very different issues. Good luck in deciding what to headline this letter.

2. (transitive, intransitive, entertainment) To present as the main attraction; to have top billing, to be the main attraction.

Derived terms

• headliner