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NEWSPAPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher
Example:
when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper
Synonyms:
newspaper; paper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("newspaper" is a kind of...):
product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements
Example:
he read his newspaper at breakfast
Synonyms:
newspaper; paper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("newspaper" is a kind of...):
press; public press (the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines)
Meronyms (parts of "newspaper"):
rotogravure (printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press)
column; editorial; newspaper column (an article giving opinions or perspectives)
feature; feature article (a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine)
news article; news story; newspaper article (an article reporting news)
headline; newspaper headline (the heading or caption of a newspaper article)
sports section (the section of a newspaper that reports on sports)
news item (an item in a newspaper)
cartoon strip; comic strip; funnies; strip (a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "newspaper"):
daily (a newspaper that is published every day)
gazette (a newspaper or official journal)
school newspaper; school paper (a newspaper written and published by students in a school)
rag; sheet; tabloid (newspaper with half-size pages)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A business firm that publishes newspapers
Example:
Murdoch owns many newspapers
Synonyms:
newspaper; newspaper publisher; paper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("newspaper" is a kind of...):
publisher; publishing company; publishing firm; publishing house (a firm in the publishing business)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers
Example:
they used bales of newspaper every day
Synonyms:
newspaper; newsprint
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("newspaper" is a kind of...):
paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)
Context examples:
A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish—read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Peggotty, with a smile, put his hand in his breast-pocket, and produced a flat-folded, paper parcel, from which he took out, with much care, a little odd-looking newspaper.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
All that I learned was through the columns of a newspaper.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When Lady Middleton rose to go away, Mr. Palmer rose also, laid down the newspaper, stretched himself and looked at them all around.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 (PHQ-9) Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television.
(PHQ-9 - Trouble Concentrating on Things, NCI Thesaurus)
One side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains.
(Page, NCI Thesaurus)
“It did happen to see the light in a newspaper,” I replied, “but not because the magazine editors had been denied a glimpse at it.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Besides, he looked like the photographs of the Alaskan dogs they saw published in magazines and newspapers.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Researchers say Zealandia may have broken off from the supercontinent Gondwana between 60 and 85 million years ago, according to the Guardian newspaper.
(Researchers Argue for Eighth Continent: Zealandia, VOA)
She had only navy lists and newspapers for her authority, but she could not doubt his being rich; and, in favour of his constancy, she had no reason to believe him married.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
