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dateline

Syllables: date·lineUK/ˈdeɪtlaɪn/

dateline noun: a line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters. Also the misspelling of deadline.

Noun

dateline (plural datelines)

  1. A line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters.
    • Other bits of furniture include the dateline, which says where a journalist is reporting from – historically with the date of dispatch, eg “Buenos Aires, 1 March.”2023 January 31, Elisabeth Ribbans, “The perils of using journalist jargon outside the newsroom”, in The Guardian

Verb

dateline (third-person singular simple present datelines, present participle datelining, simple past and past participle datelined)

  1. To attach a dateline to a particular document.
    • He datelined the entry: "Oxford Mississippi, 27 January, 1926."1993, Joel Williamson, William Faulkner and Southern History, →ISBN, page 207

Also used as

dateline is also the misspelling of deadline.

Forms of dateline

Noun
pluraldatelines
Verb
third-person singular presentdatelines
present participledatelining
past participledatelined
pastdatelined

Plural of dateline: datelines

Origin of dateline

From date + line.

Words formed from dateline

Words that rhyme with dateline

Questions about dateline

What does dateline mean?
Dateline means a line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters.
What part of speech is dateline?
Dateline can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce dateline?
Dateline is pronounced /ˈdeɪtlaɪn/ (UK).
What is the plural of dateline?
The plural of dateline is datelines.

Words near dateline in the dictionary

  1. datedness
  2. datednesses
  3. dateless
  4. datelessness
  5. datelike
  6. dateline
  7. datelined
  8. dateliner
  9. dateliners
  10. datelines
  11. datelining

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dateline (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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