dateline

Definition of Dateline in English :

an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian

2. dateline

a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch

3. date-mark, dateline, datemark

mark with a date and place

Example Sentences:
'dateline a newspaper article'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dateline

noun

journalism

the date and location of a story, placed at the top of an article

noun

1. US

the date and place of writing or issue, as given in a line in a letter, a newspaper, a dispatch, etc.

2.

international date line

verb transitiveWord forms: ˈdateˌlined or ˈdateˌlining US

3.

to furnish with a dateline

n.

A phrase at the beginning of a newspaper or magazine article that gives the date and place of its origin.