Usually means: Title summarizing a news article.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. headline: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. headline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. headline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. headline: Collins English Dictionary
  5. headline: Vocabulary.com
  6. Headline, headline: Wordnik
  7. headline: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. headline: Wiktionary
  9. headline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. headline: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. headline: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Headline, headline: Dictionary.com
  13. headline: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. headline: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Headline (film), Headline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Headline: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. headline: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. headline: Rhymezone
  19. headline: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. headline: Free Dictionary
  21. headline: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. headline: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. headline: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. headline: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HEADLINE: Acronym Finder
  2. headline: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. headline: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See headlined as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (journalism) The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article.
noun:  (printing, dated) The line at the top of a page containing the folio or number of the page.
noun:  (entertainment) The top-billed attraction.
noun:  (nautical) A headrope.
verb:  To give a headline to a page or section of a text.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, entertainment) To present as the main attraction; to have top billing, to be the main attraction.

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