title
- headline
‘title’
The title of a book, play, painting, or piece of music is its name.
He wrote a book with the title ‘The Castle’.
‘Walk under Ladders’ is the title of her new play.
‘headline’
Don't refer to the words printed in large letters at the top of a newspaper report as a ‘title’. You call them a headline.
All the headlines are about the Ridley affair.