In plural. In the titles of periodicals: the published reports or records of a specified (esp. academic) organization, discipline, or subject…

a journal that publishes scientific papers, a science journal.

a periodical that contains works of fiction.

= women's magazine n. at compounds 5.

= woman's magazine n.

In sense A. 4e, designating a publication produced by a particular company, business, or group and dealing mainly with its own activities, as house jo…

A regular publication about films and filmmaking.

spec. A periodical composed wholly or mainly of condensed versions of articles, stories, etc., previously published elsewhere. Also attributive.

a journal specializing in some common object of devotion or in well-known personalities.

a magazine devoted to popular or sensational literature.

a magazine that purports to contain people's true confessions, life-stories, etc.

U.S. An expensive or ‘glossy’ magazine (opposed to pulp magazine n. at pulp, n. compounds 2).

A ‘glossy’ magazine or the like (see glossy, adj.); also, a copy of such a magazine; material printed in such magazines.

colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). Chiefly in plural with the. A newspaper, periodical, etc., dealing with the entertainment industry. Cf…

A magazine or other publication containing a (usually romantic) story told in a sequence of photographs with dialogue added in superimposed speech…