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newspaper Definition

news·paper (no̵̅o̅z′pā′pər, nyo̵̅o̅z′-; no̵̅o̅s′-, nyo̵̅o̅s′-)

noun

  1. a publication regularly printed and distributed, usually daily or weekly, containing news, opinions, advertisements, and other items of general interest
  2. newsprint

newspaper Synonyms

newspaper

n.

  1. publication, paper, daily paper, press, fourth estate, public press, sheet, tabloid, gazette; see also journal 1, record 1.

    Varieties of newspapers include: daily, weekly, bi-weekly, metropolitan, rural, national, business, tabloid, trade, provincial, community.

  2. Parts of newspapers include: front page, editorial page, local news, domestic news, international news, magazine, business, society, sports, entertainment section, amusement section, rotogravure, comics, comic page, classified, advertising, syndicated section*, boiler plate*.

  3. Editions of newspapers include: morning, afternoon, evening, home, extra, special, suburban, city, metro, final, mail, Sunday.

  4. Famous newspapers include:

    England: The Times, Financial Times, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Guardian, Sun, News of the World; France: Le Temps, Le Figaro, Le Monde; Russia: Pravda, Izvestiya, Trud; Germany: Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine; U.S.: USA Today, Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times.

newspaper Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • read: For verbal tests, start reading a good quality newspaper or magazine with editorial articles to improve your command of language.
  • publish: For example, a newspaper published in 1930 is out of copyright in 2001.
  • tell: The Danish government did not tell the newspaper to run them.
  • sell: To sell newspapers, how brutal, they decided to up their sales on the back of Dr. Kelly's widow.
  • found: Marx and Engels visited Paris before moving to Cologne where they founded a radical newspaper, New Rhenish Gazette.

Adjective modifier

  • daily: In Britain every national daily newspaper had follow-up stories.
  • tabloid: The text I have written is a letter to a writer in the tabloid newspaper " The Sun " .
  • Independent: In the Irish Independent newspaper, Business splashes out to rescue regatta.
  • weekly: The Warsaw Voice weekly newspaper is a favorite for the city's English-speaking community.
  • national: During these years, he assisted in making the Daily Express the best selling national newspaper in the world.
  • local: Click here for the local newspaper 's feature on April's weather.

Modifies a noun

  • cutting: Newspaper cuttings: Here you have to sift out the material you need to answer the question.
  • clipping: There are also paintings, photographs, newspaper clippings and many biographical accounts of Lawrence and his circle.
  • headline: It might be an old person's story, a newspaper headline, an old photograph.
  • columnist: I just don't think any of them are primarily current affairs newspaper columnists.
  • reporter: And there were police officers and newspaper reporters everywhere both on and off the forts.
  • article: Most stories are linked to the full newspaper article.

Noun used with modifier

  • broadsheet: Also look at the ' best buy ' tables in Sunday broadsheet newspapers.
  • Scotsman: Also see the tour operator list compiled by The Scotsman newspaper.
  • tabloid: At one time it was only the low-grade tabloid newspapers that encouraged popular superstitions like crystal-gazing or astrology.