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article |
a piece of writing on a particular subject that appears in a newspaper, magazine, or book. [1/4 definitions] |
bulletin |
a magazine or small newspaper published at regular times. [1/2 definitions] |
caption |
the words that describe a picture or graph in a magazine, book, or newspaper. |
circulation |
the number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold at a given time, or the selling itself. [1/3 definitions] |
column |
an article or other piece of writing in a newspaper or magazine that appears on a regular schedule. [1/4 definitions] |
columnist |
a writer or editor of a regular column or feature in a newspaper or magazine. |
comic |
(plural) one or more series of cartoons, or a book, magazine, or newspaper section that contains such series. [1/3 definitions] |
comic strip |
a series of cartoons in a newspaper that tells a funny story. |
correspondent |
a person who reports news or contributes articles regularly to a newspaper, magazine, TV network, or the like, from a distant area. [1/2 definitions] |
daily |
a newspaper that is printed every day or every day except Sunday. [1/3 definitions] |
editor |
a person who writes editorials for a newspaper or magazine. [1/2 definitions] |
editorial |
an article in a newspaper, or a statement on television, that gives an opinion or point of view. [1/2 definitions] |
extra |
an edition of a newspaper that is added to a regular publication schedule. [1/4 definitions] |
headline |
the title to a newspaper article that tells what the article is about. The headline for the most important news is in the largest type on the front page of the paper. [1/2 definitions] |
journal |
a newspaper or magazine. [1/2 definitions] |
news |
(used with a singular verb) a report of recent important events, read out on the television or radio, or printed in a newspaper, magazine, or Web site. |
paper |
a newspaper. [1/5 definitions] |
publication |
a magazine, book, newspaper, or other thing that is published. [1/3 definitions] |
reporter |
a person whose job is to gather and report news for a newspaper or magazine, or for a television station or radio station. |
review |
an article in a newspaper or magazine that judges the worth of a new book, film, play, restaurant, or the like. [1/7 definitions] |
scrapbook |
a book with blank pages for saving pictures, newspaper clippings, and other mementos. |
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