NEWS ITEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does news item mean? 

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

1. an item in a newspaper

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWS ITEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An item in a newspaper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

item; point (a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list)

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

factoid (a brief (usually one sentence and usually trivial) news item)

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

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