agate line

1. 1.

   space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising

   Synonymsline

   Broaderarea unit

Questions about agate line

What does agate line mean?

agate line means "space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising".

What is another word for agate line?

Close synonyms include line. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is agate line a common word?

agate line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.