magazinemag‧a‧zine /ˌmæɡəˈziːn $ ˈmæɡəziːn/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable] 
a glossy fashion magazine She’s the editor of a popular women’s magazine. a magazine article She glanced over the magazine racks.2a television or radio programme which is made up of a number of reports: a local news magazine programme3the part of a gun that holds the bullets4the part that holds the film in a camera or projector5a room or building for storing weapons, explosives etcGRAMMARYou read or see something in a magazine: · He read an interview with her in a magazine. ✗Don’t say: He read an interview with her on a magazine.Grammar guide ‒ NOUNS
WORD ORIGINmagazine
Origin:
1500-1600 Early French, ‘building where things are stored’, from Old Provençal, from Arabic makhazin, plural of makhzan ‘storehouse’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a model turned TV presenter, who has been on the cover of all the men's magazines
- a photographic magazine
- a photography magazine
- Hillary Clinton is featured on the cover of this week's Time magazine.
- I bought some magazines for the trip - Cosmopolitan and Vanity Fair.
- travel magazines
- As Peter and James came in, she threw down the magazine she was reading, stood up and came towards them.
- Cataldo has a background in the tech press, having worked at Computer Life and Electronic Entertainment magazines.
- Divisional Secretaries, please keep the magazine informed of meetings, dinners and any other occasion that your Division is involved in.
- Joe wrote extensively for the magazine and became a literary editor during his final year.
- Lanskoi and Rostovtsev read the magazine avidly.
- The magazine will also be sold on newsstands nationwide and offered by subscription.
Longman Language Activatornewspapers and magazines
a set of large folded sheets of paper containing news, articles, pictures etc, which is printed and sold every day or every week: · Can I have a look at your newspaper, please?· It says in the paper that they're getting divorced.Sunday paper (=a paper that is sold every Sunday, and has more pages than papers sold on other days): · I like to sit in bed and read the Sunday papers.local paper (=a newspaper that gives news mainly about the town or area where it is printed): · Did you see Dave's picture in the local paper?national newspaper: · "Asian Week" is a national newspaper printed in San Francisco.daily/weekly newspaper: · She works as a sportswriter for the town's major daily newspaper, The Arizona Daily Star.
a large, thin book with a paper cover, often printed on shiny paper, which contains stories, articles, photographs, and sometimes also news: · I bought some magazines for the trip - Cosmopolitan and Vanity Fair.· a photography magazine· Hillary Clinton is featured on the cover of this week's Time magazine.women's/men's magazine (=a magazine intended especially for women/men): · a model turned TV presenter, who has been on the cover of all the men's magazines
also glossies British a magazine for women printed on shiny paper, that has lots of photographs of fashionable clothes, and advertisements for beauty products: · Cosmopolitan, the original glossy for young womenthe glossies British (=these magazines considered as a group): · We've seen her golden smile and her figure in the glossies again and again.
newspapers and the people who write for them: · Do you think the press has too much influence on politics?· Princess Diana was followed by the press wherever she went.the popular press (=newspapers that are read by a lot of people, usually for entertainment rather than for serious news): · Smith strongly denies reports in the popular press that he is addicted to cocaine.the gutter press British (=newspapers that have an extremely low standard of reporting - used to show strong disapproval): · His wife walked out, selling her story to the gutter press, and accusing him of being an alcoholic.the quality press British (=serious newspapers with a high standard of reporting): · The issue was debated by academics, and some sections of the quality press.
all the organizations that are involved in providing information to the public, especially newspapers, television, and radio: · The letter must have been leaked to the media by a White House official.· The judge is worried that comments in the media might affect the result of the trial.
British newspapers printed on large sheets of paper, especially serious newspapers that people respect: · broadsheets such as The Times and The Telegraph· Broadsheets are aimed at an educated middle and upper-class readership.
a newspaper that does not contain much serious news, but has stories about famous people, sport, sex etc - use this especially about newspapers that you think are not serious enough: · She claimed that she had had an affair with the President, and sold her story to the tabloids.
WORD SETSabstract, nounagony aunt, nounagony column, nounannual, nounanthology, nounantiquarian, adjectiveappendix, nounarticle, nounauthor, nounautobiography, nounback, nounbackslash, nounbackspace, nounballoon, nounbanner headline, nounbestiary, nounbest-seller, nounbibliography, nounbibliophile, nounbind, verbbinder, nounbinding, nounbiographer, nounbiography, nounblackout, nounbold, adjectiveboldface, nounbook, nounbookbinding, nounbooklet, nounbookmark, nounbookmobile, nounbookplate, nounbookseller, nounbookshop, nounbookstall, nounbookstore, nounbound, adjectivebox, nounbraille, nounbroadsheet, nounbrochure, nounbubble, nounbulletin, nounby-line, nouncalendar, nouncaption, nouncarry, verbcatalogue, nouncentrefold, nounchain letter, nounchapbook, nounchapter, nounchequebook journalism, nouncircular, nouncirculation, nouncity desk, nouncity editor, nounclassified ad, nounclip, nounclipping, nouncodex, nouncol, collection, nouncolour supplement, nouncolumn, nouncolumnist, nouncomic, nouncomic strip, nouncommentary, nouncommentator, nouncompanion, nouncompendium, nouncomposition, nouncompositor, nouncontribute, verbcontributor, nouncopy, nouncopy editor, nouncopyist, nouncorrespondent, nouncoursebook, nouncover girl, nouncover story, nouncross-refer, verbcross-reference, nouncutting, noundaily, noundesk, noundiarist, noundiary, noundictionary, noundime novel, noundirectory, noundog-eared, adjectivedoorstep, verbdotted line, noundraft, noundraft, verbDTP, noundust jacket, nouned., edit, verbedition, nouneditor, nouneditorial, nouneditorship, nounemend, verbencyclopedia, nounentry, nounerratum, nounet al, adverbet cetera, adverbexclusive, nounexposure, nounexpurgated, adjectivefeature, nounff, figure, nounfiller, nounfinancial supermarket, Fleet Street, fly leaf, nounfolio, nounfollow-up, nounfont, nounfootnote, nounforeword, nounformat, nounformat, verbfrontispiece, nounfull-page, adjectivefull stop, nounfunny papers, noungagging order, galley, noungazette, noungazetteer, nounghost, verbghost writer, noungloss, noungloss, verbglossary, nounglossy, noungonzo journalism, noungossip column, noungraphic design, nounguide, nounguillotine, nounhack, nounhagiography, nounhalftone, nounhandbill, nounhandbook, nounhardback, nounhardcover, nounheading, nounheadline, nounheadline, verbheadword, nounhistory, nounhumorist, nounillustrate, verbillustration, nounimpression, nounimprimatur, nounimprint, nounindent, verbindentation, nounindex, nounindex, verbinsert, nouninset, nouninset, verbinstalment, nouninterpolate, verbISBN, nounissue, nounitalicize, verbitalics, nounjacket, nounjournal, nounjournalese, nounjournalism, nounjournalist, nounjourno, nounl, landscape, nounlayout, nounleader, nounleading article, nounleaf, nounletter-size, adjectivelibrary, nounlimited edition, nounlined, adjectiveLinotype, nounliterature, nounlocal paper, nounlocal rag, nounloose-leaf, adjectivelower case, nounmag, nounmagazine, nounmanuscript, nounmargin, nounmasthead, nounmezzotint, nounmicrofiche, nounmisprint, nounmonograph, nounmonthly, nounmorocco, nounmuckraking, nounN/A, N.B., news, nounnews agency, nounnewshound, nounnewsletter, nounnewspaper, nounnewsprint, nounnews release, nounnon-fiction, nounnote, nounnotebook, nounnotice, nounnumber, nounobituary, nounoffprint, nounoffset, adjectiveomnibus, nounop. cit., open letter, nounorgan, nounoverleaf, adverboverprint, verbp., pagination, nounpamphlet, nounpamphleteer, nounpap, nounpaparazzi, nounpaper, nounpaperback, nounpaperboy, nounpaper girl, nounpaper round, nounpaper shop, nounpara, passage, nounpaste-up, nounperiodical, nounpersonal ad, nounpersonal column, nounphrasebook, nounpicture book, nounpiece, nounplate, nounpocketbook, nounpp., prequel, nounpress, nounpress baron, nounpress box, nounpress conference, nounpress corps, nounpress cutting, nounpress gallery, nounpressman, nounpress office, nounpress release, nounprint, verbprint, nounprinted matter, nounprinter, nounprinting, nounprinting ink, nounprinting press, nounproblem page, nounproof, nounproofread, verbpublication, nounpublish, verbpublisher, nounpublishing, nounpull-out, nounquarterly, adjectivequarterly, nounquarto, nounquire, nounquotation, nounquote, verbrag, nounreader, nounreadership, nounreading, nounream, nounred ink, nounreference, nounreference book, nounreference library, nounrelease, verbreprint, verbreproduce, verbreproduction, nounreproductive, adjectivereview, nounreview, verbreviewer, nounrevise, verbrevision, nounrider, nounroman, nounsans serif, nounsaturation, nounscare story, nounscoop, nounscoop, verbsection, nounserif, nounset, verbsilk screen, adjectivesketch, nounslipcase, nounsmall ad, nounsoft porn, nounsource, nounspace, nounspine, nounsplash, verbspoiler, nounstay of execution, nounstop press, nounstory, nounstorybook, nounstringer, nounstrip, nounstrip cartoon, nounsub, nounsub, verbsubedit, verbsub-editor, nounsubheading, nounsubscribe, verbsubscriber, nounsubscription, nounsuperscript, adjectivesupplement, nounsymposium, nounsyndicate, verbtable, nountabloid, nountext, nounthumb index, nountitle page, nountome, nountract, nountreatise, nountrot, nountype, nountypeface, nountypescript, nountypesetting, nountypographer, nountypography, nounvanity press, nounvellum, nounvignette, nounvol., volume, nounweekly, nounwell-thumbed, adjectivewoodblock, nounwrite-up, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a glossy fashion magazine She’s the editor of a popular women’s magazine.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a glossy fashion magazine She’s the editor of a popular women’s magazine.· I got the apartment through a newspaper advertisement.
· The couple talked frankly about their joy at having a new baby in a magazine article published yesterday.
· A couple of articles appeared in local papers, but nothing else.
· There was a blonde girl on the magazine cover.
· She’s the editor of a leading fashion magazine.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· She was twenty-eight years of age with the kind of breathtaking allure normally associated with the cover of a glossy fashion magazine.· I have simply refined the role of glossy magazines.· Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine.· We take it back about the glossy business magazines.· Yes, the glossy magazines should avoid using images of clearly under-nourished models or promoting the heroin-chic look.· You may obtain snapshots using scissors and your favorite glossy magazine.· The newspaper slowly unfolded itself on the mat, flopping open to reveal some glossy law magazine that had been placed inside.· It can be seen smiling from the cover of glossy magazines that celebrate celebrity as much as sport.
· A new monthly magazine Wessex Architect was launched and used to promote a wide range of events.· E Monthly magazine, and added newsstand distribution starting with the April issue.· Which was the most discussed book of the year according to some magazine, monthly magazine.· It is now the largest selling monthly magazine for young women in almost all of the countries in which it is published.· Automatic receipt of the monthly magazine Banking World.· Do they have time for a monthly general-interest magazine?· As a monthly, the magazine can not offer its readers the overnight scores, nor preview the week's to matches.· The disc also contains a monthly magazine of field and classroom ideas.
· She has also appeared in several national magazines due to her prowess at sewing a fine seam.· But she realized she needed at least $ 5 million to launch a high-quality national magazine.· As a first step, it is requesting permission to publish a national magazine which would be distributed by the State.· Her smiling face graced the cover of a national magazine.· While still at school Widgery had written for a short-lived national schools magazine, which rapidly collapsed.· The impromptu concerts have been written up in national magazines and people travel hundreds of miles to take part in the fun.· By 1986 he had reverted to freelancing on several national newspapers and magazines before joining the newly launched Independent as rock critic.· I picked up the National Geographic magazine and stared at a-series of time-lapse photographs of a blowhole in Yosemite.
· The new post-Occupation magazines and publishing houses were run from bars.· A new monthly magazine Wessex Architect was launched and used to promote a wide range of events.· McHugh is the editor of Maxim, a new magazine for men who love beer, babes and sports.· With it came not only new though ephemeral music, but new clothes, magazines, books and films.· The editor of a new national magazine called me up before Christmas and asked me to write a story about suburban sprawl.· Backing the talent of the Adamsons with this new magazine could be a vital way of influencing public opinion.· The new year already has brought a flurry of new magazines.
· Even popular magazine articles recognize that there are appropriate steps necessary to being happy.· Like the popular magazine, the tone of the tax guide is straight forward and conversational.· The editors of these popular magazines are not feminist ideologues, but they have bought into the victim culture.· The extent to which certain species of marine fishes may be tamed was published some time ago in a popular weekly magazine.· Now, popular magazines regularly broach the subject.· Naturalists recruited boys to hunt specimens, established price lists, advertised in popular magazines.
· If you are unaware, Sports Illustrated is the United States' leading weekly sports magazine, with over 3.25 million subscribers.· The extent to which certain species of marine fishes may be tamed was published some time ago in a popular weekly magazine.· In 1949 he joined Paris-Match, which was then a new weekly news magazine.· Ferdinand Mount, then the Political Editor of the weekly magazine Spectator, replaced him.· Even weekly magazines carry styles to match developments in the law.· A brand new weekly women's magazine, Woman's Day, is launched.· She was about to leave Options and start a new weekly magazine called Riva.
NOUN· Each magazine article I read advised me to buy the best, the fastest, the latest or whatever.· A recent Governing magazine article about at-risk youth illustrated the importance of a holistic approach.· Best-selling books, magazine articles and newspaper columns publicised his ideas.· A magazine article indicated I might benefit from adding weight lifting to my exercise program.· Denise and Ralph Bulger talk frankly about the joy they feel over the new baby in a magazine article published tomorrow.· Newspaper and magazine articles create an interest in the artist.· He found two lists of boards of directors, apparently copied from a magazine article.
· They seized computer magazines, phones, cables and diskettes, but failed to find a computer or a modem.· The past couple of years have witnessed an explosion in the number of neural network articles appearing in computer magazines.· As for Ziff-Davis, the market for computer magazines is already competitive and growing more so.· Buy some computer magazines - you will find that many companies sell direct, not through dealers.· Most computer magazines publish short games programs.· Desktop Publishing Hardly an issue of a computer magazine goes by without some mention, editorial or advertisement, of desktop publishing.· A few computer magazines, some cash I pinched from Quigley's drawer and my Abbey National card.
· But so cool is the blue minimalist card that one style magazine editor aspired to name his baby son Sony.· The magazine editor offered me his moist, soft hand; then I was left alone at the table with my brother.· That night we went to a party given by a magazine editor.
· She was twenty-eight years of age with the kind of breathtaking allure normally associated with the cover of a glossy fashion magazine.· I would cut out the people in the fashion magazines and use them as though I was creating a play.· She looked as if she could be on the cover of a fashion magazine.· Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine.· She wasn't a girl at all, in any sense that the fashion magazines would recognize.· It specialises in giving everyday people a glamorous look that would do the cover of any top fashion magazine proud.· I look at fashion magazines more than I look at news magazines.· Andrew Logan's party, for instance, which got us our first press - a mention in an upmarket society fashion magazine.
· He quickly married Toni Nichols, a blond and beautiful Life magazine photographer.· Before that he was with Life magazine.· Paris Match and Life magazines had both bought some.
· Regional daily news magazine: Central News West.· The news magazine was dead on.· In 1949 he joined Paris-Match, which was then a new weekly news magazine.· At about this time I read the first article about us in a worn copy of a news magazine being passed around.· The supreme court's rulings have been controversial, much criticised in academic journals, newspaper leaders and news magazines.· The Advocate, based in Los Angeles, is a biweekly news magazine covering stories of particular interest to homosexuals.· It announced its existence in a group interview with the news magazine Semana.· One will be devoted to the Internet, the other is designed as a news magazine about technology of the future.
· Technical standards unite this cottage industry of desk-top publishing with the presses of newspaper and magazine publishers.· The magazine publisher had always hoped that supply-side guru Jack Kemp would head the Republican ticket.· The magazine publisher will formally announce his withdrawal in Washington Thursday.
· I now work for Time magazine, they cover world politics and I cover the international end for them.· At Berkeley, he began stringing for Time magazine, which hired him after he graduated.· By then, Time magazine had published a profile of me.· When time magazine made her the subject of a cover story, she encouraged them to include a profile of me.· Only now has the story dribbled out, making the cover of Time magazine this week.· Well, Time magazine seems to think so.· Suppose the photographers from Time magazine got a shot of me.
· On a low table in front of her were some engineering trade magazines and a copy of the Financial Times.· His interest in the business grew after reading trade magazines and other material about the business.· He had said he would give up freelancing and get a regular job on a trade magazine or something.· Publisher, a journalism trade magazine, and a series of press releases.· Emap's portfolio also includes Automotive Management, the leading trade magazine in the franchised dealer sector.· Take Mary Pittilla, 26, an Oxford graduate who earns £17,000 a year as a sub-editor on a London trade magazine.
VERB· It is intended that these articles should be in addition to current missionary writing which appears in the magazine each month.· They were the first women to appear in magazines who looked strong enough to swing a tennis racket.· Throughout the summer adverts will appear in newspapers and magazines reminding people of the goodness of spam.· She has also appeared in several national magazines due to her prowess at sewing a fine seam.· This satire originally appeared in the on-line magazine Salon.· The correct answer will appear in the summer magazine.· Articles appeared in major magazines and metropolitan dailies.
· I buy your magazine every month and sometimes I don't receive it and have to wait till the month after.· The sales pitch can be so slick that many consumers don't even realize they have bought magazines until the bill arrives.· He bought a magazine and flipped its pages while he drank the coffee.· I used to buy architecture magazines on the street.· It just got too obvious that nobody bought the magazine so Moscow hauled in the chain.· Conde Nast is expected to start or buy another five magazines in the next five years, Mr Florio says.· I bought the magazine, Shannonside, and found it to be very interesting.· Few men who pick up Playboy can get away with the line that they buy the magazine only for the articles.
· If the story is accepted and published in a magazine then it has already gone through a considerable review process.· The findings on why cancers don't stop growing will be published in the science magazine Nature this week.· I knew that in the history of literature a great many writers had begun their careers by publishing in such little magazines.· As a first step, it is requesting permission to publish a national magazine which would be distributed by the State.· Our group publishes a quarterly magazine, giving help, advice and the latest news on access, etc.
· Her partner reads the magazine, too, and sometimes she lends a copy to a friend.· I used to send my songs off to outfits in Hollywood that I had read about in magazines.· Rafiq was over by the window, reading a technical magazine.· His interest in the business grew after reading trade magazines and other material about the business.· Lanskoi and Rostovtsev read the magazine avidly.· He follows the auctions and reads the auction magazines.· Then I get up and read the papers and magazines.
· Many of the current crop of celebrity exercise videos can actually be bad for you, reports the Consumers Association magazine Which?· It has been reported in Fortune magazine that Oprah Winfrey has an estimated annual income of $ 40 million.· Why not try some of the Hollywood chat-ups recently reported by Spy magazines.· S., however, have long maintained privately that cheating goes on in the data reported to magazines.· The events were first reported by Newsweek magazine.
· Most of them are early, including two conventional religious pieces and a charming salon song written for a magazine.· Joe wrote extensively for the magazine and became a literary editor during his final year.· She neither wrote for the student magazine, nor was particularly remembered.· He kept up his Internet ties, wrote for some Internetoriented magazines and eventually started landing deals for Netrelated books.· Ever since I won a short-story competition some years ago I've wanted to write for magazines.· The impromptu concerts have been written up in national magazines and people travel hundreds of miles to take part in the fun.· You let me read that story you wrote for your class magazine: The Dragon's Mouth.· Requests for interviews, invitations to speak to students, and opportunities to write articles for magazines poured in.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► girlie magazine/calendar etc► naughty jokes/magazines/films etc► have your nose in a book/magazine/newspaper
1a large thin book with a paper cover that contains news stories, articles, photographs etc, and is sold weekly or monthlyfashion/computer/women’s etc magazine- A glossy magazine designed to satisfy the CEOs ego may go wide of the mark with the factory workers.
- Chapanis suggested that computers are not quite as easy to work as the glossy brochures suggest.
- I had read the literature, listened to the tape and examined the glossy brochure.
- I have simply refined the role of glossy magazines.
- It can be seen smiling from the cover of glossy magazines that celebrate celebrity as much as sport.
- They strike beautiful poses that could go unaltered into glossy magazines but tell us little about them.
- Yes, the glossy magazines should avoid using images of clearly under-nourished models or promoting the heroin-chic look.
- You may obtain snapshots using scissors and your favorite glossy magazine.
a glossy fashion magazine She’s the editor of a popular women’s magazine. a magazine article She glanced over the magazine racks.2a television or radio programme which is made up of a number of reports: a local news magazine programme3the part of a gun that holds the bullets4the part that holds the film in a camera or projector5a room or building for storing weapons, explosives etcGRAMMARYou read or see something in a magazine: · He read an interview with her in a magazine. ✗Don’t say: He read an interview with her on a magazine.Grammar guide ‒ NOUNS