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

Ironic humour carries safely enough in a conversation guided by facial clues and tonal hops, but it won't easily survive the transition to Sunday supplement.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2012

“Snap as many youngsters as you want,” read an ad in the sensational Sunday supplement The American Weekly, “from babies to boys and girls beginning to think of themselves as young men and women.”

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 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