magazine
/ˌmæɡəˈziːn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.74 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.
noun
A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.
noun
An ammunition storehouse.
noun
An ammunition storehouse.
noun
A chamber in or attachable to a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
noun
A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
Example Sentences
- "After several months' delay, The Emerald City, New York's hour-long gay television show, is on the air. In magazine format, the show offers interviews, gay news and commentary, visits to New York's entertainment spots and gay shows, and a bit of camping from George Sardi."
- "He all thir Ammunition / And feats of War defeats / With plain Heroic magnitude of mind / And celeſtial vigour arm’d, / Thir Armories and Magazins contemns, / Renders them uſeleſs, while / With winged expedition / Swift as the lightning glance he executes / His errand on the wicked, who ſurpris’d / Loſe thir defence diſtracted and amaz’d."
- "The cruiser blew up when a shell hit its magazine."
- "Juneau was making good time with the other surviving U.S. Navy ships, despite her damage, when the I-26 spotted her and sent a salvo of Type 95 torpedoes in her direction. Passing between the Helena and San Francisco, some indication being they had actually been shot at the San Francisco and gone long because San Francisco was travelling significantly slower than expected, they nonetheless hit Juneau and detonated the ship's magazine."
- "Most teletext "magazines" contain about 100 pages of information, typically including news headlines, weather reports, sports scores, video games, and stock prices."
- "The operator is able to build Teletext magazines of, typically, 100 pages per magazine, specify transmission times […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Arabic خَزَنَ (ḵazana)der. Arabic مَخْزَن (maḵzan) Arabic مَخَازِن (maḵāzin)bor. Italian magazzinoder. Middle French magasinder. Middle English magasyne English magazine From Middle English magasyne, from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, store”), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse”), ultimately from Arabic مَخَازِن pl (maḵāzin), plural of مَخْزَن (maḵzan, “storeroom, storehouse”), noun of place from خَزَنَ (ḵazana, “to store, to stock, to lay up”). First attested in the 1580s.
Origin
- Source language: Middle English
- First known use: First attested in the 1580s
Word Breakdown
- Root: magasyne, magasin, magazzino, مَخَازِن, خ ز ن