Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun headline
1 sense of headline
Sense 1
headline, newspaper headline -- (the heading or caption of a newspaper article)
=> heading, header, head -- (a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb headline
2 senses of headline
Sense 1
headline -- (publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline)
=> advertise, publicize, advertize, publicise -- (call attention to; "Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS")
Sense 2
headline -- (provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline)
=> supply, provide, render, furnish -- (give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater")