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coverline

coverline noun: a line of text on the front cover of a magazine, briefly describing and promoting the content.

Noun

coverline (plural coverlines)

  1. A line of text on the front cover of a magazine, briefly describing and promoting the content.
    • “The optimum number of coverlines on a real life title is seven,” he says. “But Chat’s design enables it to run one more than that, giving it a real advantage, one more hook to pull readers in.”2010 November 22, Peter Genower, “Today’s covers - reader focused, brand aware - and hard, hard sell”, in InPublishing
    • My face was on the cover of Inc. magazine, and the coverline said: "Zumba, Company of the Year."2017 September 28, Beto Perez, “The Moment I Realized That I - and Zumba - Had Achieved the American Dream”, in PopSugar

Forms of coverline

pluralcoverlines

Origin of coverline

From cover + line.

Questions about coverline

What does coverline mean?
Coverline means a line of text on the front cover of a magazine, briefly describing and promoting the content.
What part of speech is coverline?
Coverline is a noun.
What is the plural of coverline?
The plural of coverline is coverlines.

Words near coverline in the dictionary

  1. coverleted
  2. coverlets
  3. coverletted
  4. coverlid
  5. coverlids
  6. coverline
  7. coverlines
  8. covermeter
  9. covermeters
  10. covermount
  11. covermounted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: coverline (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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