periodical

²periodical

noun

Definition of PERIODICAL

: a periodical publication

Examples of PERIODICAL

1. She writes for a monthly periodical.
2. The library has a large collection of scholarly periodicals.

First Known Use of PERIODICAL

1798

Related to PERIODICAL

Synonyms: book, bulletin, diurnal, gazette, mag, magazine, newspaper, organ, paper, journal, rag, review, serial, zine

Related Words: annual, bimonthly, biweekly, daily, monthly, quarterly, semimonthly, semiweekly, triweekly, weekly, yearbook; digest, little magazine; fanzine; pictorial, slick; broadside, edition, extra, sheet, supplement, tab, tabloid; newsletter, newsmagazine, newsweekly

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Other Publishing Terms

annotate, dreadful, emend, expurgate, factoid, jump, lobster shift, redaction, referee