OPENING LINE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first line of a piece of writing (as a newspaper story)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("opening line" is a kind of...):

line (text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen)

Holonyms ("opening line" is a part of...):

news article; news story; newspaper article (an article reporting news)

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