front-page
adjective
of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
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front pagenounthe first and most visible page of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication; front matter.
front-page
1 American
[fruhnt-peyj]
/ ˈfrʌntˈpeɪdʒ /
adjective
verb (used with object)
front-paged,
front-paging
front page
2
American
[fruhnt-payj]
/ ˈfrʌntˈpeɪdʒ /
noun
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front pages
plural
front-page
British
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of front-page
An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
Example Sentences
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Europe and South America picked up the front-page story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
But when it comes to Samsung, the family dynasty behind it is so complicated – and the company so crucial to the South Korean economy – that it's front-page news.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
The Washington Post mentioned it in the 36th and final paragraph of its front-page story on McVeigh’s arrest.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
The other story above the front-page fold is a critique of the defense secretary: “Hegseth’s Vengeful Rhetoric Grew From Experience in Iraq.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
“Apartment rents skyrocket,” the front-page headline declares; they’ve leaped 20.5 percent in Minneapolis in the first three months of 2000 alone, an unprecedented increase, according to local real estate experts.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
When the cow died, Granma published her obituary on its front page, and a marble statue of her was erected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The Financial Times' front page pictures Atif Najib, the cousin of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and former head of political security, standing in a cage during a court hearing in Damascus.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Board could be printed on the front page of a newspaper.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
The front page of the Daily Star takes aim at the cost of an ice cream this summer.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Until the statue showed up on the front page, the museum hadn’t noticed it was gone.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
That Sunday, the Times front-paged a further downsizing from the vocabulary of evil, psychologizing the murderous Chechen bros with what seemed like existentialist anxiety, by speculating that “signs of alienation” may explain the crime.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2013
A Hanoi newspaper, hitherto ardently pro-West, front-paged a huge portrait of Viet Minh Chieftain Ho Chi Minh.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the New York Times front-paged a long dispatch from its able Vatican reporter, Camille Cianfarra, indicating that not only had St. Peters' tomb been discovered but his bones as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
At week's end a new Italian daily, la Republica, front-paged the names of seven CIA agents in Rome.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they front-paged what I felt about Northern white and black Freedom Riders going South to “demonstrate.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Two exceptions were the Washington Star-News and the Louisville Courier-Journal, which managed to cut through the intricacies by front-paging capsule highlights of Nixon's statement in addition to giving more detailed stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
See the one shrivel who goes around front-paging his age.
From The University of Hard Knocks by Ralph Parlette
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