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

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

The next year he began writing for New York, the newspaper’s newly revamped Sunday supplement, edited by Clay Felker.

From New York Times • May 15, 2018

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

"But while there might be a five-page profile of me in a Sunday supplement, I don't speak Norwegian, so I can't understand a word of it!"

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 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