Definition of magazine
1 : a place where goods or supplies are stored : warehouse
2 : a room in which powder and other explosives are kept in a fort or a ship
3 : the contents of a magazine: such asa : an accumulation of munitions (see munition 2) of warb : a stock of provisions (see 1provision 2) or goods
4a : a periodical containing miscellaneous pieces (such as articles, stories, poems) and often illustrated a fashion magazine a gardening magazine; also : such a periodical published onlineb : a similar section of a newspaper usually appearing on Sundayc : a radio or television program presenting usually several short segments on a variety of topics
5 : a supply chamber: such asa : a holder in or on a gun for cartridges (see cartridge 1) to be fed into the gun chamberb : a lightproof chamber for films or plates on a camera or for film on a motion-picture projector
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Examples of magazine in a Sentence
She subscribes to several gardening magazines.
the village kept a magazine where people left common supplies
Recent Examples of magazine from the Web
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There’s a creative ferment, with burgeoning art and tech and food scenes, a rapidly expanding rail network, and, well, all the other stuff this magazine covers.
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But the quiz has persisted with remarkable consistency since, with spikes in popularity during a quick magazine boom immediately post-WWII, the Cosmopolitan quizzes of the 1960s and ’70s, and today’s ubiquitous BuzzFeed quizzes.
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Seliger has teamed up with Vanity Fair for the past four years to take stunning portraits of Hollywood’s best and brightest inside the magazine’s annual Oscar party.
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Meanwhile, the union’s public relations guy blasted a blogger for Mother Jones magazine — named after the famous union firebrand — for being insufficiently liberal in his single-payer coverage.
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So: What is the best, healthy dinner—not a decent snack, but an actual meal—one can scrounge up from what is essentially a magazine store with neck pillows?
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Self magazine featured the cuffs as bridesmaids’ gifts, U.S.News & World Report as Mother’s Day presents and Allure as a solution to the one accessory (a hair band) that ruins any party outfit.
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Canoe the Cahaba | 2370 Highway 52, Helena | 205.874.5623 | facebook.com/CanoeTheCahaba --Photos by Kelsey Freeman This story appears in Birmingham magazine's June 2017 issue.
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The company has 550 employees across the world — 80 of them in Miami — who publish 27 global editions of its websites, social media channels and magazines, said Smith.
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Origin and Etymology of magazine
Middle French, from Old Occitan, from Arabic makhāzin, plural of makhzan storehouse
MAGAZINE Defined for English Language Learners
magazine
playDefinition of magazine for English Language Learners
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: a type of thin book with a paper cover that contains stories, essays, pictures, etc., and that is usually published every week or month
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: a radio or television program that discusses different topics
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: a part of a gun that holds bullets
MAGAZINE Defined for Kids
magazine
playDefinition of magazine for Students
1 : a publication issued at regular intervals (as weekly or monthly)
2 : a storehouse or warehouse for military supplies
3 : a container in a gun for holding cartridges
History for magazine
The English word magazine came from a French word with the same spelling that in turn came from an Arabic word makhāzin. Both the French and the Arabic words meant “a place where things are stored.” At first the English word had the same meaning, and it is still used in this sense. However, a later sense is now more common—that of a collection of written pieces printed at set times, the suggestion being that such collections are “storehouses of knowledge.”
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