magazine
noun
mag·a·zine
ˈma-gə-ˌzēn 
ˌma-gə-ˈzēn
1
a
: a print periodical containing miscellaneous pieces (such as articles, stories, poems) and often illustrated
a fashion magazine
a gardening magazine
also
: such a periodical published online
b
: a similar section of a newspaper usually appearing on Sunday
c
: a radio or television program presenting usually several short segments on a variety of topics
2
: a place where goods or supplies are stored : warehouse
3
: a room in which powder and other explosives are kept in a fort or a ship
4
: the contents of a magazine: such as
a
: an accumulation of munitions (see munition sense 2) of war
b
: a stock of provisions (see provision entry 1 sense 2) or goods
5
: a supply chamber: such as
a
: a holder in or on a gun for cartridges (see cartridge sense 1) to be fed into the gun chamber
b
: a lightproof chamber for films or plates on a camera or for film on a motion-picture projector
Synonyms
Examples of magazine in a Sentence
She subscribes to several gardening magazines.
the village kept a magazine where people left common supplies
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Brad Japhe, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
Many of these episodes expanded upon subjects written about in Scientific American magazine.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Feb. 2025
Members of Daesh, a terror organization, beheaded the 21 men on the beach and then posted the photographs in Dabiq, its propaganda magazine.
—Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2025
The phrase 'practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty' was coined in 1982 by magazine writer and editor Anne Herbert.
—Kendall Malinchock, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Magazine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/magazine. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.
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magazine
noun
mag·a·zine
ˈmag-ə-ˌzēn
ˌmag-ə-ˈzēn
1
: a storehouse or warehouse especially for military supplies
2
: a place for keeping explosives in a fort or ship
3
: a publication containing different pieces (as stories, articles, or poems) and issued at regular intervals (as weekly or monthly)
4
: a supply chamber: as
a
: a container in a gun for holding cartridges
b
: a container for film on a camera or motion-picture projector
Etymology
from early French magazine "storehouse, warehouse," derived from Arabic makhāzin, plural of makhzan "storehouse, granary, cellar"
Word Origin
Magazine originally meant "storehouse" or "granary" or "cellar." It came into an early French dialect and then English from the Arabic word makhzan (plural makhāzin). Makhzan had all these meanings. In military and naval use magazine came to mean a storage place for gunpowder or weapons or a place on a warship where the powder was kept. Later it came to mean either a place where valuable things were stored or the stored things themselves. A new sense of magazine appeared in 1731 with the first issue of a monthly publication called The Gentleman's Magazine, a collection or storehouse of short stories and articles about things of interest to the general reader. This use of magazine caught on and was used for similar publications.
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