headlined
- 1Simple past and past participle of headline.
A local comedian headlined the charity event downtown.
The paper headlined the corruption scandal across its front page.
Note
One spelling serves as both past tense and participle, and it carries both of the verb's meanings: putting a headline on a page, and taking top billing. In the billing sense it works with or without an object. A band headlined the festival, or simply headlined last night. The participle also gives the passive: the evening was headlined by a local comedian.
The band that headlined last night had sold out the hall weeks before.
The festival was headlined by a singer few had heard of a year earlier.
headlined is a form of headline
headline, verb: To perform as the main attraction at an event, or to give someone or something top billing. Full entry
- Forms
- headlineheadlines he/she/itheadlining -ing formheadlined past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- headline → headlined: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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