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byline

/ˈbaɪlaɪn/

byline noun: a line at the head of a newspaper or magazine article carrying the writer's name.

Noun

byline (plural bylines)

  1. A line at the head of a newspaper or magazine article carrying the writer's name.
    • Paste Magazine opted not to put a byline on its harsh review of Swift’s album, citing safety concerns for the writer.2024 April 22, Matt Stevens, Shivani Gonzalez, “Taylor Swift Has Given Fans a Lot. Is It Finally Too Much?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 May 2024
  2. A touchline.

Verb

byline (third-person singular simple present bylines, present participle bylining, simple past and past participle bylined)

  1. (transitive) To provide (an article) with a byline.
    • Mitchell, Lange and Brus (2013) find that in a top international relations Journal^([sic])—ISQ—83 percent of men's citation are to research bylined by just men, while 57 percent of women's citations are to articles bylined by just men (table 2).2020, Colin Elman, John Gerring, James Mahoney, editors, The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, footnote 34, page 416

Forms of byline

Noun
pluralbylines
alternative UKby-line
Verb
third-person singular presentbylines
present participlebylining
past participlebylined
pastbylined

Plural of byline: bylines

Origin of byline

From by- + line.

Words formed from byline

Words that rhyme with byline

Questions about byline

What does byline mean?
Byline means a line at the head of a newspaper or magazine article carrying the writer's name.
What part of speech is byline?
Byline can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce byline?
Byline is pronounced /ˈbaɪlaɪn/.
What is the plural of byline?
The plural of byline is bylines.

Words near byline in the dictionary

  1. Bylers
  2. Byles
  3. Byleses
  4. bylina
  5. bylinas
  6. byline
  7. bylined
  8. byliner
  9. byliners
  10. bylines
  11. bylini

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Adapted from Wiktionary: byline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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