datelines
datelines is the plural of dateline.
Meaning of dateline
Noun
dateline (plural datelines)
- 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
Questions about datelines
- What is datelines the plural of?
- Datelines is the plural of dateline.
Words near datelines in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: datelines (page history and authors); 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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