newslettern.
/ˈnjuːzˌlɛtə/, U.S. /ˈn(j)uzˌlɛdər/ 1. A letter written to communicate news; spec. (now historical) one specially written and published to communicate the news of the day (common in the later part of the 17th and beginning of the 18th cent.), a news sheet. Formerly also (now historical): a printed account of the news, sometimes with a blank space left for private additions.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun]
intelligencer1598
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spread1848
linen-draper1857
newsprint1897
blat1932
linen1955
mimeo newspaper1973
1665 Stirling Common Good f. 35v To Robert Buchanan for ane yearis cariedge of news lettres fra Edinburgh.
1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 216 The last week's Packett brought over a News Lettre, wch hath bin dispersed through all ye country & read at severall coffee houses in this Citty.
1711 London Gaz. No. 4803/2 The common News Letters from Paris will not yet own the raising of the Siege of Gironne.
1724 J. Swift Let. to Mr. Harding 2 In your News-Letter of the Ist. Instant there is a Paragraph..relating to Woods's Half-pence.
1771 B. Franklin Autobiogr. 1323 My Brother had in 1720 or 21, begun to print a Newspaper... The only one before it, was the Boston News Letter.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. ii. 17 Sir Everard learned from the public News-Letter, first, that Richard Waverley, Esquire, was returned for the ministerial borough of Barterfaith. View more context for this quotation
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 390 People who lived at a distance..could be kept regularly informed of what was passing there only by means of newsletters.
1880 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 19 Sept. (1956) VII. 325 Your ‘news-letter’ was very welcome, and I was especially glad to know that Gertrude tries to keep up her health by little devices of change.
1893 A. Jessopp Stud. Recluse vii. 249 The newsletters of the 17th century did the work of the newspapers now.
1914 Writer's Mag. Jan. 313/2 Some of the journals take daily news letters.
1936 Time 29 June 26/2 He runs a publishing house with offices in Chicago and Philadelphia, keeps his friends informed in periodic news-letters which he calls ‘Rainbow-Graphs’.
1984 D. Leavitt Family Dancing 87 Mother believes in Christmas newsletters.
2. A comparatively informal printed report of topical news or information issued periodically to subscribers or to members of a society, organization, etc.; (also in later use) a similar bulletin published on the internet or sent by email.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > other types of letter
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test letter1869
letter of envoy1873
hastener1922
fan letter1932
aerogram1933
yum-yum1943
newsletter1961
overnights1975
1961 ‘E. Lathen’ Banking on Death xi. 91 Martin seems to be a persistent reader of stock market newsletters.
1972 Physics Bull. Sept. 562/2 The purpose of the new Group will be..to circulate newsletters to Group members and to promote the general advancement and dissemination of knowledge in the field of neutron scattering.
1999 BBC Good Food July 129/4 (advt.) You'll receive a special monthly newsletter, packed with previews, giveaways and events exclusive to subscribers.
2001 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 20 Dec. d10 At the same site you can also sign up for their free twice-weekly online newsletter, Security Wire Digest.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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