Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - headline

(headlines, headlining, headlined) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A headline is the title of a newspaper story, printed in large letters at the top of the story, especially on the front page. The Daily Mail has the headline ‘The Voice of Conscience’... N-COUNT 2. The headlines are the main points of the news which are read on radio or television. I’m Claudia Polley with the news headlines. N-PLURAL 3. If a newspaper or magazine article is headlined a particular thing, that is the headline that introduces it. The article was headlined ‘Tell us the truth’. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed quote 4. If someone headlines a show, they are the main performer in it. VERB 5. Someone or something that hits the headlines or grabs the headlines gets a lot of publicity from the media. El Salvador first hit the world headlines at the beginning of the 1980s... PHRASE: V inflects