opening line

1. 1.

   the first line of a piece of writing (as a newspaper story)

   Broaderline

   Part ofnews article

Questions about opening line

What does opening line mean?

opening line means "the first line of a piece of writing (as a newspaper story)".

Is opening line a common word?

opening 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.