magazine

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object

   tripped over a pile of magazines

2. 2
   noun

   a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it

   it takes several years before a magazine starts to break even or make money

3. 3
   noun

   a business firm that publishes magazines

   They work for a magazine.

4. 4
   noun

   An ammunition storehouse.

   He all thir Ammunition / And feats of War defeats / With plain Heroic magnitude of mind / And celeſtial vigour arm’d, / Thir Armories and Magazins contemns, / Renders them uſeleſs, while / With winged expedition / Swift as the lightning glance he executes / His errand on the wicked, who ſurpris’d / Loſe thir defence diſtracted and amaz’d.

5. 5
   noun

   A collection of Teletext pages.

   Most teletext "magazines" contain about 100 pages of information, typically including news headlines, weather reports, sports scores, video games, and stock prices.

6. 6
   noun

   a metal frame or container holding cartridges

7. 7
   noun

   a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored

8. 8
   noun

   a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required

Etymology

Etymology tree Arabic خَزَنَ (ḵazana)der. Arabic مَخْزَن (maḵzan) Arabic مَخَازِن (maḵāzin)bor. Italian magazzinoder. Middle French magasinder. Middle English magasyne English magazine From Middle English magasyne, from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, store”), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse”), ultimately from Arabic مَخَازِن pl (maḵāzin), plural of مَخْزَن (maḵzan, “storeroom, storehouse”), noun of place from خَزَنَ (ḵazana, “to store, to stock, to lay up”). First attested in the 1580s.