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

• depository
• depot
• repository
• storage
• storehouse
• warehouse

Examples of magazine in a Sentence

She subscribes to several gardening magazines.

the village kept a magazine where people left common supplies

Recent Examples on the Web

Kunis had served as an observer on Thorn’s board and also is stepping down, Time magazine reported. —Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023

The annual ‘Image Makers’ issue of IMAGE magazine focuses on fall fashion through an L.A. lens in biggest edition yet. —Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023

On Wednesday, Bon Appetit magazine included Kann and its subterranean sister bar Sousòl in its annual guide to America’s best new restaurants. —Mrussell, oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2023

To mark the occasion, the star — who first interned for Chanel in 1986 — was honored by the iconic fashion brand and W magazine with a chic dinner at Indochine in New York City on Thursday night. —Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023

Even better, the bottles have been selected to go with the recipes and menus in our magazine. —Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023

Though McNair’s photos were published nationally, on the covers of Jet and Ebony magazine, many of his photos exist only in that album. —Rebecca Griesbach | [e-mail], al, 14 Sep. 2023

The Hairy Who, and Nutt’s work in particular, followed in impolite fashion, collapsing Old Master work and comic books, consumer advertisements and pin-up magazines, into luridly colored and rudely psychosexual compositions. —Max Lakin, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023

According to the magazine, the pair first joined forces after Meisel discovered his now-muse while perusing a European magazine in the 1980s. —Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

Middle French, from Old Occitan, from Arabic makhāzin, plural of makhzan storehouse

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Phrases Containing magazine

• little magazine

• little magazine

Kids Definition

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.