English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
news + paper
Pronunciation [edit]
newspaper (countable and uncountable; plural newspapers)
- (countable) A publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles.
- (uncountable, countable) A quantity of or one of the types of paper on which newspapers are printed.
Synonyms [edit]
- (publication): daily (for a daily newspaper), paper, rag (derogatory)
- (paper on which newspapers are printed): newsprint
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
publication
- Afrikaans: koerant (af)
- Albanian: gazetë (sq) f
- Arabic: جريدة (ar) (jarīda) f, صحيفة (ar) (ṣaḥīfa) f
- Egyptian Arabic: جرنان (gornan) m
- Armenian: թերթ (hy) (t'ert')
- Azeri: qəzet (az)
- Bashkir: гәзит (gäzit)
- Basque: egunkari (eu)
- Belarusian: газета (be) (hazjéta) f
- Bengali: সংবাদপত্র (bn) (shôngbadpôtrô)
- Breton: kazetenn (br) f
- Bulgarian: вестник (bg) (véstnik) m
- Burmese: ကော်လံ (my) (kɔ̀-là̃), သတင်းစာ (my) (ðadí̃-zà)
- Catalan: diari m, periòdic m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 報紙 (cmn), 报纸 (cmn) (bàozhǐ), 報 (cmn), 报 (cmn) (bào), 報章 (cmn), 报章 (cmn) (bàozhāng)
- Czech: noviny (cs) f pl
- Danish: avis (da), dagblad (da), tidsskrift (da)
- Dutch: krant (nl) f, nieuwsblad (nl) n, dagblad (nl) n
- Esperanto: ĵurnalo (eo)
- Estonian: ajaleht (et), leht (et)
- Faroese: blað (fo) n, tíðindablað (fo) n, dagblað (fo) n
- Finnish: sanomalehti (fi), lehti (fi)
- French: journal (fr) m, journaux (fr) pl
- Galician: xornal (gl) m
- Georgian: გაზეთი (ka) (gazeti)
- German: Zeitung (de) f
- Greek: εφημερίδα (el) (efimerída) f
- Hebrew: עִיתּוֹן (he) (‘itón)
- Hindi: अख़बार (hi) (axbār) m, समाचारपत्र (hi) (samācār-patr), वृत्तपत्र (hi) (vruttpatra)
- Hungarian: hírlap (hu), újság (hu)
- Icelandic: dagblað (is) n, fréttablað (is) n
- Ido: jurnalo (io)
- Inari Sami: aavis
- Indonesian: koran (id)
- Irish: nuachtán (ga) m
- Italian: giornale (it) m, quotidiano (it) m
- Japanese: 新聞 (ja), しんぶん (ja) (shinbun)
- Jèrriais: gâzette f
- Kannada: ವೃತ್ತಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (kn) (vŕttapatrike), ಸಮಾಚಾರ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (kn) (samācāra patrike), ವಾರ್ತಾಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (kn) (vārtāpatrike)
- Kazakh: газет (kk) (gazet)
- Khmer: កាសែត (km) (kaasaet), សារពត៌មាន (km) (saa poadɑɑmien)
- Korean: 신문 (ko) (sinmun) (新聞 (ko))
- Kurdish: rojname (ku) f, nûçename (ku) f, ڕۆژنامه (ku)
- Kyrgyz: гезит (ky) (gezit)
- Lao: ໜັງສືພິມ (lo) (nang-sư̄-phim)
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- Latin: acta diurna (la) n pl
- Latvian: avīze (lv) f, laikraksts (lv) m
- Lithuanian: laikraštis (lt) m
- Macedonian: весник (mk) (vésnik) m
- Malay: akhbar (ms)
- Malayalam: ദിനപത്രം (ml) (dinapathram)
- Maltese: ġurnal (mt) m
- Maori: nūpepa (mi)
- Marathi: वृत्तपत्र (mr) (vruttpatra)
- Mongolian: сонин (mn) (sonin)
- Navajo: aseezį́ binaaltsoos, haneʼ binaaltsoos
- Norwegian: avis (no)
- Novial: jurnale
- Okinawan: かみはぶ (kamihabu)
- Ossetian: газет (gazet)
- Persian: روزنامه (fa) (ruz-nâme)
- Polish: gazeta (pl) f
- Portuguese: jornal (pt) m
- Romanian: ziar (ro)
- Russian: газета (ru) (gazéta) f
- Scottish Gaelic: pàipear-naidheachd (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: но̀вине (sh) f pl
- Roman: nòvine (sh) f pl
- Sinhalese: පුවත්පත (si) (puvatpata), පත්තරේ (si) (pattarē)
- Skolt Sami: ga´zaat, ga´zeâ´t
- Slovak: noviny (sk) f pl
- Slovene: časopis (sl) m, časnik (sl) m
- Sotho: koranta (st)
- Spanish: periódico (es) m
- Swahili: gazeti (sw), magazeti (sw) pl (noun 5/6)
- Swedish: dagstidning (sv) c, morgontidning (sv) c, kvällstidning (sv) c, tidning (sv)
- Tagalog: dyariyo (tl)
- Tajik: газета (tg) (gazeta), рӯзнома (tg) (rūznoma)
- Tamil: நாளிதழ் (ta) (nāḷitaḻ)
- Tatar: газета (tt) (gazeta)
- Telugu: వార్తాపత్రిక (te) (vārtāpatrika)
- Thai: หนังสือพิมพ์ (th) (năngsĕupim)
- Tok Pisin: niuspepa (tpi)
- Turkish: gazete (tr)
- Turkmen: gazet (tk)
- Ukrainian: газета (uk) (hazéta) f
- Urdu: اخبار (ur) (axbār) m, سماچار پتر (ur) (samācār-patr) m
- Uzbek: roʻznoma (uz)
- Vietnamese: tờ báo (vi), báo (vi)
- Welsh: papur newydd (cy) m; newyddiadur (cy) m
- West Frisian: krante (fy) c
- Yiddish: צײַטונג (yi) (tsáytung) f
- Zazaki: rocname f
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paper on which newspapers are printed
newspaper (third-person singular simple present newspapers, present participle newspapering, simple past and past participle newspapered)
- (transitive) To cover with newspaper.
- She newspapered one end of the room before painting the bookcase.
- (intransitive, transitive) To engage in the business of journalism (usually used only in the gerund, newspapering)
- He newspapered his way through the South on the sports beat, avoiding dry towms.
- (transitive, obsolete) to harrass in newspaper articles.
- He was newspapered out of public life.
Usage notes [edit]
- The harrass sense is usually in passive constructions.
