newsstand
Americannoun
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newsstands
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of newsstand
Explanation
A newsstand is a stand (also called a stall) that holds newspapers, magazines, comic books, and other periodicals. Sometimes there are newsstands in train stations, so you don’t have to just stand there and wait, you can read the news! The word newsstand is basically news and stand smushed together. Sometimes you still see it hyphenated, as in news-stand, but they’ve been together long enough to ditch the hyphen. It is exactly what it sounds like — a stand that sells news. A newsstand is usually a booth on a busy corner, in building lobby, or anywhere people might like to buy something to read. It’s a good word for hangman because there are two s’s in the middle.
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On a cold November morning, designer Isaac Mizrahi gets up, leaves his apartment, and trudges to the corner newsstand to pick up a copy of Women’s Wear Daily.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
On our walk back to the Oxford House, we passed a newsstand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
For seven days in early October, Anthropic’s large language model Claude was the brand-in-residence at the Air Mail newsstand, the physical outpost for the digital magazine founded by former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2025
Out of the old newsstand, which still smelled faintly of cigars, a million diapers were given out to young mothers, along with 10 million wet wipes and 700,000 bottles of baby food and formula.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2025
Keeping his cupped hand very steady, Mario walked back to the newsstand.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
The Sing Tao Daily is one of the oldest newspapers in Hong Kong and has long been featured on newsstands in Chinatown and the San Gabriel Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
An early edition of the next day’s New York Times arrived on newsstands with a big headline at the top of the front page that said “100,000 Rally at U.N. Against Vietnam War.”
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2025
The March issue of British Vogue will be available via digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday 13 February.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2024
The Eugene Weekly will return to newsstands on Feb. 8 with roughly 25,000 copies, about six weeks after the embezzlement forced the decades-old publication to halt its print edition, editor Camilla Mortensen said Saturday.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2024
All the other times they had raided newsstands, fruit stands, and apartments.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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