OPENING LINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does opening line mean? 

• OPENING LINE (noun)
  The noun OPENING LINE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: OPENING LINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPENING LINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first line of a piece of writing (as a newspaper story)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("opening line" is a kind of...):

line (text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen)

Holonyms ("opening line" is a part of...):

news article; news story; newspaper article (an article reporting news)