noun
dateline
DAYT-lyn
noun
1
The line at the start of a news story or document that gives the place and date it was written or filed.
"The article carried a dateline reading "Nairobi, June 4.""
"Editors trimmed the dateline before republishing the wire report."
How to Use Dateline
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe little "place, date" tag you see at the top of a news article.
Common pairings
carry a dateline
a foreign dateline
Word Forms
datelined past tense, datelines plural, datelines singular
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The article carried a _____ reading "Nairobi, June 4."
Etymology
A straightforward compound of "date" and "line" — literally the line that gives the date (and place).