periodical

adjective pe·ri·od·i·cal \ ˌpir-ē-ˈä-di-kəl \

|Updated on: 10 Aug 2018

Examples: periodical in a Sentence

Definition of periodical

1 : periodic 1

2 a : published with a fixed interval between the issues or numbers

b : published in, characteristic of, or connected with a periodical

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Examples of periodical in a Sentence

a periodical town newsletter that is supported by local advertisers
periodical announcements from airline personnel concerning the delay

Recent Examples of periodical from the Web

Almost nothing about the artist or his company appeared in library catalogs or periodical indexes.

— edward tenner, Time, "Search Engines May Seem All-Knowing, But They’re Not. Here’s How to Get More Trustworthy Results," 26 June 2018
These include decreases from .75 cents to $2.70 in the cost of sixth-through-eighth-grade Language Arts trade books and a .50 increase in kindergarten periodical subscriptions.

— brian lisik/special to cleveland.com, cleveland.com, "Brunswick schools prepare for first strategic plan update in two decades," 17 Apr. 2018
Raymond Gadke assisted several generations of researchers and students in his oversight of University of Chicago Library’s microforms department and later of its periodical collections and all its reading room collections.

— bob goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, "Ray Gadke, oversaw microforms and periodicals at University of Chicago library, dies," 18 Mar. 2018
Would not such a periodical revision engender pernicious factions that might not otherwise come into existence?

— jay cost, National Review, "Christ Church Should Be Ashamed," 30 Oct. 2017
Would not such a periodical revision engender pernicious factions that might not otherwise come into existence?

— charles p. pierce, Esquire, "This Is the Bleakest Moment for America in My Lifetime," 13 Aug. 2017
Periodical cicadas are broken into two groups based on its 17 or 13-year periodic appearances.

— jefferson county cooperative extension, AL.com, "Danger follows the buzz of summer (Garden Talk)," 18 July 2017
Legendary periodical cicada researcher C.L. Marlatt called them stragglers back in 1898.

— kevin ambrose, Washington Post, "Why are these enormous cicadas crawling out of the ground early? An expert explains.," 24 May 2017
But Washington must issue periodical waivers to keep the penalties from snapping back into place and the most recent one was set to expire this week.

— josh lederman, The Seattle Times, "With waiver, US lets Iran keep getting benefits of nuke deal," 17 May 2017

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First Known Use of periodical

1585

in the meaning defined at sense 1

See Words from the same year

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periodical Synonyms

Other Publishing Terms

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

periodical

noun

Definition of periodical

: a periodical publication

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Examples of periodical in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples of periodical from the Web

The paper traces its roots to a related paper, the twice-weekly Maryland Gazette, which was founded in 1727 in Annapolis and is one of oldest periodicals in the United States.

— Washington Post, "Capital Gazette shooting suspect charged with five counts of murder," 29 June 2018
Noguchi wrote in the Japanese periodical Diamond Weekly.

— kevin kelleher, Fortune, "Bitcoin Futures Killed the Bitcoin Rally (and Will Keep It from Returning), Economists Say," 2 July 2018
The project itself came out of a frustration with walking into a store on Varick and being confronted by corn snacks instead of periodicals, and wishing there was more out there.

— benjamin hart, Daily Intelligencer, "The Newspaper That Tries to Re-create the Feeling of Walking Around New York," 17 May 2018
The room's reference collection has 2,000 books and periodicals on the history, structure and production of books and book arts.

— lauren castle, azcentral, "5 things to know about Phoenix's Burton Barr Central Library," 15 June 2018
One who kept stacks of such periodicals was New Yorker Patrick Parrish, who has traded in these pieces since the early 2000s.

— sarah medford, WSJ, "The Family That Has Elevated Everyday Items to Art," 29 May 2018
The offices also include a game room with classic arcade titles and the latest gaming consoles, as well as an ideation room to fuel creativity, complete with relaxed lounge furniture and a library of inspiring books and periodicals.

— dave brooks, Billboard, "Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment Rebrands to BSE Global," 7 June 2018
There, de Burgos continued to write, becoming a contributor and editor of the Spanish-language socialist periodical Pueblos Hispanos.

— New York Times, "Overlooked No More: Julia de Burgos, a Poet Who Helped Shape Puerto Rico’s Identity," 28 May 2018
Walt Disney worked on the railroad briefly in 1916 as a teenager in the Midwest selling snacks, tobacco and periodicals.

— latimes.com, "Today: The ‘Dear Jong’ Letter," 25 May 2018