dateline

1. 1.

   mark with a date and place

   “dateline a newspaper article”

   Synonymsdatemarkdate-mark

   Broaderdate

Other forms of dateline

plural

datelines·

past tense

datelined·

present participle

datelining·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dateline

What does dateline mean?

dateline means "an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dateline?

dateline has 2 syllables: date-line. The stress falls on "date". In IPA it is /ˈdeɪtˌlaɪn/.

What is another word for dateline?

Close synonyms include date line, International Date Line, datemark, date-mark. 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 dateline a common word?

dateline is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dateline?

34 words rhyme with dateline. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.