newspaper
pronunciation
How to pronounce newspaper in British English:
UK [ˈnjuːzpeɪpə(r)]
How to pronounce newspaper in American English:
US [ˈnuːzpeɪpər]
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- Noun:
- a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements
- a business firm that publishes newspapers
- a newspaper as a physical object
- cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers
Word Origin
- newspaper (n.)
- 1660s, though the thing itself is older (see gazette); from news (n.) + paper (n.). [T]he newspaper that drops on your doorstep is a partial, hasty, incomplete, inevitably somewhat flawed and inaccurate rendering of some of the things we have heard about in the past twenty-four hours -- distorted, despite our best efforts to eliminate gross bias, by the very process of compression that makes it possible for you to lift it from the doorstep and read it in about an hour. If we labeled the product accurately, then we could immediately add: But it's the best we could do under the circumstances, and we will be back tomorrow with a corrected and updated version. [David Broder, Pulitzer Prize acceptance speech, 1973]
Example
- 1. Is this the future of the newspaper ?
- 2. The newspaper cited pakistani officials who denied the accusations .
- 3. His newspaper closed in may because of financial difficulties .
- 4. This is not some newspaper story .
- 5. He gave a newspaper to scott .