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Leading article. World English Historical Dictionary

Leading article. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Leading article 1.  One of the longer large-type articles in a newspaper, appearing as the expression of editorial opinion on any subject; a leader.

1 1807.  Politics Georgium Sidus, 29. The Morning Newspapers of the metropolis … in their solemn political paragraphs, and especially in those which are called their leading articles.

2 1812.  Examiner, 25 May, 333/2. Your leading article of last Sunday.

3 1868.  M. Pattison, Academ. Org., v. 295. In the schools of Oxford is now taught in perfection the art of writing ‘leading articles.’

4   2.  Comm. a. A principal or prominent article of trade. b. In recent use, an article which is ‘pushed’ and sold at a low price in order to attract customers for other things. Cf. LEADER 8 b.

5 1818.  Jas. Mill, Brit. India, II. IV. v. 163. A leading article in the European traffic was the salt-petre produced in Bengal.

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