lead story

1. 1.

   a news story of major importance

   Synonymslead

   Broadernews article

Questions about lead story

What does lead story mean?

lead story means "a news story of major importance".

What is another word for lead story?

Close synonyms include lead. 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 lead story a common word?

lead story 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.