magazine

[ mag-uh-zeen, mag-uh-zeen ]
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noun
  1. a publication that is issued periodically, usually bound in a paper cover, and typically contains essays, stories, poems, etc., by many writers, and often photographs and drawings, frequently specializing in a particular subject or area, as hobbies, news, or sports.

  2. a room or place for keeping gunpowder and other explosives, as in a fort or on a warship.

  1. a building or place for keeping military stores, as arms, ammunition, or provisions.

  2. a metal receptacle for a number of cartridges, inserted into certain types of automatic weapons and when empty removed and replaced by a full receptacle in order to continue firing.

  3. Also called magazine show .Radio and Television.

    • Also called newsmagazine. a regularly scheduled news program consisting of several short segments in which various subjects of current interest are examined, usually in greater detail than on a regular newscast.

    • a program with a varied format that combines interviews, commentary, entertainment, etc.

  4. Photography. cartridge (def. 4).

  5. a supply chamber, as in a stove.

  6. a storehouse; warehouse.

  7. a collection of war munitions.

Origin of magazine

1
First recorded in 1575–85; from French magasin, from Italian magazzino “warehouse, depot” from Arabic makhāzin, plural of makhzan “storehouse”; in English figuratively, as “storehouse of information,” used in book titles (from c1640) and periodical titles (in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1731)

Other words from magazine

  • mag·a·zin·ish, mag·a·zin·y, adjective

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How to use magazine in a sentence

  • He was a bookseller, but better known as a translator of the German contributor to the Gentleman's magazine, &c.

  • Yet, so curiously constituted is the native mind, the blowing-up of the magazine was the final tocsin of revolt.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy
  • That night one of them endeavored to storm the magazine, burnt and plundered the station, and marched off towards Delhi.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy
  • The Gentleman's magazine contains a long list of the bridges and churches which attest his reputation and skill.

  • Though well aware that the European houses were on fire, they were confident that the magazine would be held.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy

British Dictionary definitions for magazine

magazine

/ (ˌmæɡəˈziːn) /


noun
  1. a periodical paperback publication containing articles, fiction, photographs, etc

  2. a metal box or drum holding several cartridges used in some kinds of automatic firearms; it is removed and replaced when empty

  1. a building or compartment for storing weapons, explosives, military provisions, etc

  2. a stock of ammunition

  3. a device for continuously recharging a handling system, stove, or boiler with solid fuel

  4. photog another name for cartridge (def. 5)

  5. a rack for automatically feeding a number of slides through a projector

  6. a TV or radio programme made up of a series of short nonfiction items

Origin of magazine

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C16: via French magasin from Italian magazzino, from Arabic makhāzin, plural of makhzan storehouse, from khazana to store away

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