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magazine definition

maga·zine (mag′ə zēn′, mag′ə zēn′)

noun

  1. a place of storage, as a warehouse, storehouse, or military supply depot
  2. a space in which ammunition and explosives are stored, as a building or room in a fort, or a section of a warship
  3. a supply chamber, as a space in or container on a rifle or pistol from which cartridges are fed, or a space in or container on a camera from which a protected roll of film is fed
  4. the things kept in a magazine, as munitions or supplies

  5. Etymology: from the idea of “storehouse of information”

    1. a publication, usually with a paper back and sometimes illustrated, that appears at regular intervals and contains stories, articles, etc. by various writers and, usually, advertisements
    2. a newspaper section similar to this
  6. ☆ a television program, appearing regularly, with brief informational segments

Etymology: Fr magasin < OFr magazin < It magazzino < Ar makhāzin, pl. of makhzan, a storehouse, granary < khazana, to store up

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magazine Synonyms

magazine

n.

  1. A storage chamber

    armory, ammunition storehouse, ammunition dump, cache, ammunition clip; see also arsenal, storehouse.

  2. A periodical

    publication, broadside, pamphlet, booklet, manual, circular, brochure; see also journal 2, review 2.

    Types of magazines include: critical review, literary review; daily, weekly, monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, annual; supplement, digest, art, pictorial, theatrical, movie, entertainment, travel, poetry, news, science fiction, home; scholarly journal, scientific journal, professional journal, trade journal; computer, women's, men's, fashion, food, health and fitness, house organ, mystery, magazine of reprints, college, humorous, fanzine, fan, radio; mag*, rag*, sheet*, pulp*, slick*.

  3. Well-known magazines include --- United States: Reader's Digest, Ebony, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Playboy, Saturday Review, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, McCall's, Forbes, Fortune, Harper's Bazaar, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, Nation, National Review, People, New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, National Geographic, TV Guide, Rolling Stone, Field and Stream; Britain: New Statesman, Spectator, Economist, New Society, Nature, Encounter, Times Literary Supplement, Punch; France: Paris Match, La Revue, Réalités; Germany: Der Stern, Der Spiegel, Bunte, Illustrierte, Quick; U.S.S.R. and Russian Federation: Kulturali Zhizn, Mezhnunarodnaia Zhizn, Novoe Vremia, Sovetskii Soyuz, Krokodil.


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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

magazine Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • dedicate: Our most recent creation is Screen Media magazine dedicated to the out of the home and in-store digital media sector.

Adjective modifier

  • quarterly: The Friends ' quarterly magazine, which is now in full color, contains articles about the Arboretum, trees, plants, gardens.

Modifies a noun

  • subscription: So his degree would cost him less per week than his magazine subscriptions!

Noun used with modifier

  • bi-monthly: Don't forget, you can read Contact, the University's bi-monthly magazine on the web site.

Possessives

  • chronology: Fortnight Magazine's monthly chronology of ' the Troubles ' .

Preposition: for

  • physiotherapy: Therapy Weekly is the leading weekly news magazine for the physiotherapy and occupational therapy professions.
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magazine quotes

It often happens that a man of considerable eminence in his own profession, but without the smallest acquaintance with the fundamentals of economics, will make a suggestion which is precisely on a level with the proposition that the locomotive would be much more efficient if itsweight weretakenoffthe driving wheelsso that they could revolve more easily. The editor of an important magazineacceptswithjoy the contributionin whichhedevelopshisideas, and thepublic feebly thinks that there may be something in it, and is confirmed in this view by the fact that professional economists are as disinclined to publisha refutationof it asthe Astronomer Royal is to answer the theorists who declare that the world is flat.

-Cannan, Edwin

We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or indirectly, related to the sphere of leisure time.

-Lowenthal, Leo

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

-Smith

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