NEWS ARTICLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does news article mean? 

• NEWS ARTICLE (noun)
  The noun NEWS ARTICLE has 1 sense:

1. an article reporting news

  Familiarity information: NEWS ARTICLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWS ARTICLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An article reporting news

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

news article; news story; newspaper article

Hypernyms ("news article" is a kind of...):

article (nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication)

Meronyms (parts of "news article"):

lead; lead-in; lede (the introductory section of a story)

opening line (the first line of a piece of writing (as a newspaper story))

shirttail (a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article)

Domain member category:

fast-breaking (occurring rapidly as a series of events in rapid succession)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "news article"):

lead; lead story (a news story of major importance)

personal (a short newspaper article about a particular person or group)

sidebar (a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story)

Holonyms ("news article" is a part of...):

newspaper; paper (a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements)