magazine
pronunciation
How to pronounce magazine in British English:
UK [ˌmæɡəˈziːn]
How to pronounce magazine in American English:
US [ˈmæɡəziːn]
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- Noun:
- a periodic paperback publication
- product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object
- a business firm that publishes magazines
- a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required
- a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
Word Origin
- magazine
- magazine: [16] The original meaning of magazine, now disused, was ‘storehouse’. The word comes, via French magasin and Italian magazzino, from Arabic makhāzin, the plural of makhzan ‘store-house’ (a derivative of the verb khazana ‘store’). It was soon applied specifically to a ‘store for arms’, and the modern sense ‘journal’, first recorded in the early 18th century, goes back to a 17th-century metaphorical application to a ‘storehouse of information’.
- magazine (n.)
- 1580s, "place for storing goods, especially military ammunition," from Middle French magasin "warehouse, depot, store" (15c.), from Italian magazzino, from Arabic makhazin, plural of makhzan "storehouse" (source of Spanish almacén "warehouse, magazine"), from khazana "to store up." The original sense is almost obsolete; meaning "periodical journal" dates from the publication of the first one, "Gentleman's Magazine," in 1731, which was so called from earlier use of the word for a printed list of military stores and information, or in a figurative sense, from the publication being a "storehouse" of information.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Certainly that 's what the magazine publishing industry hopes .
- 2. Even in america , the extended 31-shot magazine that mr loughner used was banned until 2004 .
- 3. Get rid of unread magazine subscriptions .
- 4. Magazine censorship in china is banal .
- 5. A week later she took a magazine .