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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

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.

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.
  • devote: In the last place I stayed there were some magazines devoted to the Pyrenees.
  • motor: Motoring magazines and specialist guides provide enormous amounts of up to date information and fairly reliable advice.
  • publish: NRICH publishes a magazine nine times a year with sections for each key stage.

Adjective modifier

  • quarterly: The Friends ' quarterly magazine, which is now in full color, contains articles about the Arboretum, trees, plants, gardens.
  • monthly: Sudoku Monthly Sudoku Monthly Magazine, monthly sudoku puzzle magazine.
  • glossy: Someone who has appeared on the cover of a glossy magazine recently?
  • weekly: Online edition of the Italian glossy weekly current affairs magazine Related resources by keyword: Italian, Italian Studies, Media, L'Express.
  • on-line: Take care, Tim The Passion on-line magazine can be found on the Soul Survivor website.
  • literary: In France he quickly became involved in Armenian literary circles, editing two literary magazines.

Modifies a noun

  • subscription: So his degree would cost him less per week than his magazine subscriptions!
  • publisher: To view us simply as magazine publishers, however, would not do us justice.
  • editor: This was the shock reaction from an esteemed magazine editor phoning up to seek confirmation that my own impressions were of similar ilk.
  • article: Syllabus Magazine article about online testing at Kirkwood Community College, printed in September, 1999.

Noun used with modifier

  • bi-monthly: Don't forget, you can read Contact, the University's bi-monthly magazine on the web site.
  • yoga: Yoga Online - An online yoga magazine, with articles, an online yoga store and plenty of links.
  • parish: At present the Ministry differs from what it should be as much as a parish magazine differs from The Times.
  • poetry: It was the British poetry magazine of the period featuring most UK writers and leavened with Americans and with Europeans in translation.

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.
magazine Quotes

He sat at the cocktail bar† It wore the air of a fashion magazine, once stiff and shiny, which too many people had handled.

—Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn

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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