broadsheet

[brawd-sheet]

noun

1. Chiefly British.,  a newspaper printed on large paper, usually a respectable newspaper rather than a tabloid.

2. broadside.

broadsheet

/ ˈbrɔːdˌʃiːt /

noun

1. a newspaper having a large format, approximately 15 by 24 inches (38 by 61 centimetres) Compare tabloid

2. another word for broadside

Example Sentences

"I was reading a 60-year-old copy of the Fraserburgh Herald, and the front page - it was a big broadsheet at the time - was packed with small local stories," he said.

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His adversaries think he’ll crumple like yesterday’s broadsheet when they turn him away, and are perturbed to realize he’s more like the human equivalent of tissue hanging onto the heel of a shoe.

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But the featured clips don’t foreground the broadsheet’s noble history.

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"Do we see broadsheets reviewing romance books? No. And they are just as important, literary books."

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From there he joined new title The Sun, then a left-leaning broadsheet, in the years before it was acquired by Rupert Murdoch.

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