word-vault/dist/data/cards/ma/magazine.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "magazine",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a type of large thin book with a paper cover that you can buy every week or month, containing articles, photographs, etc., often on a particular topic; a similar collection of articles, etc. that appears regularly online",
            "labels": "informal",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a weekly/monthly magazine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a magazine article/interview/story/feature/piece"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an **online magazine**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a literary/news magazine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to read/edit/publish a magazine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a magazine editor/publisher/journalist/reporter"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He told the magazine he was making a new album."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are launching a new magazine aimed at younger readers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has appeared on numerous magazine covers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Newspaper and magazine subscriptions are always welcome gifts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Check a listings magazine for what's on this weekend."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I leafed through some magazines in the waiting room."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The magazine claimed that he was having an affair."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a trade magazine covering the furnishings industry"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an article in a women's magazine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the company's in-house magazine"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing", "TV, radio and news"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["new", "old", "full-colour/​full-color"],
                "… of magazine": ["copy", "edition", "issue"],
                "verb + magazine": ["leaf through", "look at", "read"],
                "magazine + verb": [
                    "come out",
                    "hit something",
                    "be aimed at somebody"
                ],
                "magazine + noun": ["article", "column", "feature"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the magazine"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a radio or television programme that is about a particular topic",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a regional news magazine on TV"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **magazine programme/program**"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["TV, radio and news"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the part of a gun that holds the bullets before they are fired",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He took the machine gun and a spare magazine."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a room or building where weapons, explosives and bullets are stored",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Those buildings are ammunition magazines."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌmæɡəˈziːn/",
                "audio": "ma/magazine/magazine__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/mæɡ/",
                "audio": "ma/magazine/mag__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmæɡəziːn/",
                "audio": "ma/magazine/magazine__us_1_rr.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/mæɡ/",
                "audio": "ma/magazine/mag__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from French magasin, from Italian magazzino, from Arabic mak̲zin, mak̲zan ‘storehouse’, from k̲azana ‘store up’. The term originally meant ‘store’ and was often used from the mid 17th cent. in the title of books providing information useful to particular groups of people, whence senses (1) and (2) (mid 18th cent.). Sense (4), a contemporary specialization of the original meaning, gave rise to sense (3) in the mid 18th cent."
}