magazine

Everyday

1. A thin book with a paper cover, full of stories, articles and pictures, that comes out every week or month. tree →
2. A TV or radio programme with many short reports. tree →
3. The part of a gun that holds the bullets. tree →
4. A store for weapons and explosives. tree →

In the lessons

In everyday life and reading lessons: children's magazines, comics, nature magazines; reading magazines is non-fiction reading. In media lessons: magazines have adverts — not everything in them is true. Phrases: «a weekly/monthly magazine», «a magazine article», «a magazine subscription».

Examples

• I read a magazine about animals every month. tree →
• The waiting room had a pile of old magazines. tree →
• My poem was printed in the school magazine. tree →
• She buys a football magazine every week. tree →
• The magazine has a puzzle page. tree →
• Some adverts in magazines make things look better than they are. tree →

Note

Countable. Stress at the end in UK English: maga-ZINE; in US English often MAG-a-zine. Short form: mag. A magazine is different from a newspaper (which comes daily or weekly, mostly news).