Definitions for magazine

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magazine mag·a·zine

Spelling: [mag-uh-zeen, mag-uh-zeen]

IPA: /ˌmæg əˈzin, ˈmæg əˌzin/

Magazine is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in magazine (aaegimnz).

Definitions for magazine

noun

1. a publication that is issued periodically, usually bound in a paper cover, and typically contains essays, stories, poems, etc., by many writers, and often photographs and drawings, frequently specializing in a particular subject or area, as hobbies, news, or sports.
2. a room or place for keeping gunpowder and other explosives, as in a fort or on a warship.
3. a building or place for keeping military stores, as arms, ammunition, or provisions.
4. a metal receptacle for a number of cartridges, inserted into certain types of automatic weapons and when empty removed and replaced by a full receptacle in order to continue firing.
5. Also called magazine show. Radio and Television. Also called newsmagazine. a regularly scheduled news program consisting of several short segments in which various subjects of current interest are examined, usually in greater detail than on a regular newscast. a program with a varied format that combines interviews, commentary, entertainment, etc.
6. magazine section.
7. Photography. cartridge (def 4).
8. a supply chamber, as in a stove.
9. a storehouse; warehouse.
10. a collection of war munitions.

Origin of magazine

1575-85; French magasin Italian magazzino storehouse Arabic makhāzin, plural of makhzan storehouse; in E figuratively, as “storehouse of information,” used in book titles (from c1640) and per

Examples for magazine

I loaded the magazine and sat down to wait for the animals to land.

I must beg your pardon for the epistle you sent me appearing in the magazine.

It is written by an Italian named Marinetti, in a magazine which is called Poesia.

There is a particular focus in the magazine on attacking the United States, which al Qaeda calls a top target.

The magazine writers were "tearing off copy," the painters were simply "slapping it down."

But that's no reason why John shouldn't send his story to Blackwood's magazine.

As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.

The most recent issue contains detailed instructions for building car bombs, and the magazine frequently draws up hit-lists.

Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

The massacre of cartoonists at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo is a crystallizing moment.