leading article

[ lee-ding ]

nounJournalism.

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

Origin of leading article

First recorded in 1800–10

Words Nearby leading article

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How to use leading article in a sentence

I am very glad to find that you wrote the leading article, which I had doubted, as there was no significant hand.
The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) | Florence A. Thomas Marshall
Now the London "Times" came out with a leading article which produced a profound sensation throughout England.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year | Edwin Emerson
He dragged in by the nape of the neck, as it were, tirades whose proper place had been in a leading article.
The English Stage | Augustin Filon
It contained an account of his arrest, and a leading article on his career as a thing380 closed and ruined.
The Eternal City | Hall Caine
She stops in the middle of a leading article and looks with a careworn face at the happy cat.
The New Magdalen | Wilkie Collins

British Dictionary definitions for leading article

leading article

/ (ˈliːdɪŋ) /

nounjournalism

another term for leader (def. 6)
mainly US the article given most prominence in a magazine or newspaper

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