tabloid

English

Etymology

From a trademark for a medicine compressed into a tablet. See -oid.

Noun

tabloid (plural tabloids)

1. (publishing) A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of the standard format, especially one that favours stories of a sensational nature over more serious news.

Synonyms

• scandal sheet, tab (colloquial), yellow press

Antonyms

• broadsheet

Translations

A newspaper that favours stories of sensational nature

• Dutch: boulevardblad n, boulevardkrant c, sensatieblad n
• Finnish: iltapäivälehti (fi), tabloidi
• French: tabloïd m or tabloïde m
• German: Boulevardzeitung (de) f, Boulevardblatt m, Boulevardpresse (de) f, Skandalpresse f

• Hungarian: bulvárlap (hu), pletykalap (hu)
• Icelandic: æsifréttablað n
• Polish: tabloid (pl) m
• Spanish: tabloide m

Adjective

tabloid (not comparable)

1. In the format of a tabloid.
2. Relating to a tabloid or tabloids.
   • 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76: 

     Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.

   tabloid journalism

Translations

in the format of a tabloid

• French: tabloïd (fr) m, tabloïde f, or tabloïde m, f

relating to a tabloid

See also

• compact
• quality newspaper

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Italian

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Etymology

English

Noun

tabloid m (invariable)

1. tabloid

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tabˈlɔ.it]

Noun

tabloid m

1. tabloid

Declension

    declension of tabloid

	singular	plural
nominative	tabloid	tabloidy
genitive	tabloidu	tabloidów
dative	tabloidowi	tabloidom
accusative	tabloid	tabloidy
instrumental	tabloidem	tabloidami
locative	tabloidzie	tabloidach
vocative	tabloidzie	tabloidy