Magazine Definition
măgə-zēn, măgə-zēn
magazines
noun
magazines
A periodical containing a collection of articles, stories, pictures, or other features.
American Heritage
A space in which ammunition and explosives are stored, as a building or room in a fort, or a section of a warship.
Webster's New World
A place of storage, as a warehouse, storehouse, or military supply depot.
Webster's New World
The things kept in a magazine, as munitions or supplies.
Webster's New World
A supply chamber, as a space in or container on a rifle or pistol from which cartridges are fed, or a space in or container on a camera from which a protected roll of film is fed.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- warehouse
- store
- archive
- depository
- storehouse
- repository
- magazine publisher
- mag
- cartridge
- powder magazine
- powder store
- clip
- cartridge clip
- cartridge holder
- subscription
Other Word Forms of Magazine
Noun
Singular:
magazine
Plural:
magazinesOrigin of Magazine
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French magasin storehouse from Old French magazin (possibly via Old Italian magazzino) from Arabic maḫāzin pl. of maḫzan from ḫazana to store from Aramaic ḥassen to possess, hoard derived stem of ḥəsan to be strong ḫsn in Semitic roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Borrowing from Middle French magasin ("warehouse, store"), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse"), ultimately from Arabic مَخَازِنٌ (maḵāzin, “storerooms, storehouses"), plural of مَخْزَنٌ (maḵzan, “storeroom, storehouse"), from خَزَنَ (ḵazana, “to store, to stock, to lay up").
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