Synonyms of headings

headings

noun

plural of heading

as in titles

a word or series of words often in larger letters placed at the beginning of a passage or at the top of a page in order to introduce or categorize

the recipe for turkey gumbo is under the heading "stews" rather than under "soups"

Synonyms & Similar Words

• titles
• captions
• headlines
• headers
• banners
• heads
• rubrics
• subtitles
• subheadings
• catchwords
• streamers
• greetings
• subheads
• superscripts
• salutations
• guide words
• running heads
• superscriptions

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of headings

Will my boss prefer serif or sans serif headings in this pitch deck? — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026

Attached to the appeal letter were nearly 200 pages of records organized by headings and numbers. — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025

Breaking information into short sections with scannable headings may help keep candidates engaged longer, so try to focus on that approach instead. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 18 May 2026

Simple formatting, recognizable headings, and standard section labels all carry weight in whether a resume is parsed correctly. — K. H. Koehler, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025

Instead of streamlining, companies simply used generic headings to bucket their existing legal boilerplate. — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

Ratified in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment is short, a mere fifty words including the section headings, but with a large intended effect. — JSTOR Daily, 25 Oct. 2025

On a radio channel typically reserved for crisp, professional callouts about altitude, headings and runway assignments, the animal impressions stood out — to put it mildly. — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026

To work around this, LLM hackers turned to markup language, which, among other things, allows users to add formatting elements such as headings, lists, and links to text without the need for HTML tags. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 16 June 2026