The first page of a newspaper, containing the most important or remarkable news of the day.
（报纸的）头版
as modifierthe story is still front-page news
Example sentencesExamples
When he returned the local newspaper had a front-page story which made him cringe.
Across Australia, his passing provoked front-page headlines in newspapers and pages of coverage.
Some of the most famous front pages, from the early 20th century to the present day, are reproduced here.
The New University, the student newspaper, published a front-page article, which featured, more or less verbatim, Mary's charges.
Just days after being installed, the state-owned Daily News carried a front-page story highlighting the president's directive to take ‘urgent actions to uplift estate workers’.
Phrases
hold the front page
ironic Used to draw attention to an important or noteworthy fact or occurrence.
Pop star tries new look. Blimey, hold the front page
Example sentencesExamples
And talking of oddball ideas… Toshiba launched a new notebook last week (hold the front page!
Hold the front page for that one, lad.
Oh my god, sex has something to do with social relations, hold the front page.
A newspaper finds a positive trend… … hold the front page.
Hold the front page: our heroes remain mislaid.
The salient fact, nevertheless, about the Scottish game is not that it is dull, hold the front page, but that it is bereft of any creative thinking.
Hold the front page for that one!
It was certainly not the kind of news for which editors hold the front page.
I mean… it's hardly going to make anyone hold the front page, is it?
We weren't exactly holding the front page with that revelation.