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Meaning of newspaper in English

Table of contents
  1. Pronunciation
  2. Noun
    1. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Noun

    newspaper

    Definitions

    1. a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets

    Examples

    • « contains news and articles and advertisements »
    • « he read his newspaper at breakfast »
  2. 2. a business firm that publishes newspapers

    Examples

    • « Murdoch owns many newspapers »
  3. 3. a newspaper as a physical object

    Examples

    • « when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper »
  4. 4. cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers

    Examples

    • « they used bales of newspaper every day »

Famous quotes

  • « The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it. »
    John Podhoretz
  • « A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass. »
    A. J. Liebling
  • « Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. »
    Russell Baker
  • « I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry. »
    Stephen Colbert
  • « Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. »
    Helen Rowland

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