Sunday supplement

American  

noun

1. a special section incorporated in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, often containing features on books, celebrities, home entertainment, gardening, and the like.

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Etymology

Origin of Sunday supplement

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30

Example Sentences

Parade had competition from another Sunday supplement, Family Weekly, which was renamed USA Weekend after its acquisition by the Gannett Company, the publisher of USA Today, in 1985.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2023

The star-smitten 1924 headline “They Swim in Their Own Backyards” reads like an early, prim version of today’s Sunday supplement real estate porn.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2021

When the latter was shuttered in the 1960s, she provided seed money to spin off the newspaper’s Sunday supplement and establish New York magazine.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2016

If he is recalled today, it is in association with that perennial 99p introductory offer on the back of the Sunday supplement, and that line-drawing of the couple with the straggly Woodstock hair.

From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2012

The day before, October 8,1933, the American Weekly, a Sunday supplement in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and dozens of other American newspapers, had run a single-frame, half-page cartoon, one in a series titled City Shadows.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown