leading article

[ lee-ding ]

noun

, Journalism.

1. Also called leader. the most important or prominent news story in a newspaper.
2. British. leader ( def 5b ).

leading article

/ ˈliːdɪŋ /

noun

1. another term for leader
2. the article given most prominence in a magazine or newspaper

Word History and Origins

Origin of leading article¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

I am very glad to find that you wrote the leading article, which I had doubted, as there was no significant hand.

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Now the London "Times" came out with a leading article which produced a profound sensation throughout England.

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He dragged in by the nape of the neck, as it were, tirades whose proper place had been in a leading article.

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It contained an account of his arrest, and a leading article on his career as a thing380 closed and ruined.

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She stops in the middle of a leading article and looks with a careworn face at the happy cat.

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