magazine

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Etymology

Borrowed 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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæɡ.əˈziːn/, /ˈmæɡ.ə.ziːn/

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• Rhymes: -iːn
• Hyphenation: mag‧a‧zine

Noun

magazine (plural magazines)

1. A non-academic periodical publication, generally consisting of sheets of paper folded in half and stapled at the fold.
   1. (attributive) Of a television show, having each episode comprised of a variety features or segments.
      • 1977 April 16, “Emeralds for TV”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

        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.

3. (military) An ammunition storehouse.

   Synonym: powder magazine

   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, .”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: J. M for John Starkey , →OCLC, pages 76–77, lines 293–8:

     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.

   1. (nautical) The portion of a warship where munitions are stored.

      The cruiser blew up when a shell hit its magazine.

      • 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 28:10 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)‎, archived from the original on 7 November 2022:

        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.

4. A chamber in or attachable to a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
5. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
6. (archaic) A country or district especially rich in natural products.
7. (archaic) A city viewed as a marketing center.
8. (Louisiana) A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
9. (television, UK, Ireland) A collection of Teletext pages.
   • 1983, Channels of Communications, volume 3, page 41:

     Most teletext "magazines" contain about 100 pages of information, typically including news headlines, weather reports, sports scores, video games, and stock prices.

   • 1984, Telecommunications, volume 18, page 89:

     The operator is able to build Teletext magazines of, typically, 100 pages per magazine, specify transmission times […]

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English magazine. The neuter gender is due to magazijn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.ɡəˌziːn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ma‧ga‧zi‧ne

Noun

magazine n (plural magazines)

1. magazine (periodical publication)

French

Etymology

English magazine, 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”). Doublet of magasin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ɡa.zin/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

magazine m (plural magazines)

1. magazine (periodical publication)

   Synonyms: revue, périodique

Further reading

• “magazine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English magazine, from Middle French magasin, from Italian magazzino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɡa.zin/, /ˈmɛ.ɡa.zin/, /ma.ɡaˈzin/
• Rhymes: -aɡazin, -ɛɡazin, -in

Noun

magazine m (plural magazines)

1. magazine (publication, especially the supplement of a newspaper)

   Synonym: rivista

References

Further reading

• magazine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ma‧ga‧zi‧ne

Noun

magazine m (plural magazines)

1. department store (store containing many departments)

   Synonym: loja de departamento

Romanian

Noun

magazine n pl

1. plural of magazin