headline
noun/ˈhɛdˌlaɪn/
Frequency rank: #4,050 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
The title printed in large letters at the top of a news story.
Example sentence
The newspaper's headline announced the biggest news of the day.
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