newspaper

[nooz-pey-per, nyooz-, noos-, nyoos-] /ˈnuzˌpeɪ pər, ˈnyuz-, ˈnus-, ˈnyus-/
noun
1.
a publication issued at regular and usually close intervals, especially daily or weekly, and commonly containing news, comment, features, and advertising.
2.
a business organization publishing such a publication.
3.
a single issue or copy of such a publication.
4.
newsprint.
Origin
1660-70; news + paper
Related forms
newspaperdom, noun
newspaperish, adjective
Examples from the web for newspaper
  • It's not only in newspaper headlines--it's even on magazine covers.
  • The newspaper listing below is not intended to be comprehensive.
  • The newspaper also refused to acknowledge any man as king or lawgiver to the church.
  • The resulting newspaper had both the size and style of the sun.
  • He is editor of a newspaper and is again building new and great businesses.
  • The newspaper thus exerted its civic leadership in the finest tradition of journalism.
British Dictionary definitions for newspaper

newspaper

/ˈnjuːzˌpeɪpə/
noun
1.
  1. a weekly or daily publication consisting of folded sheets and containing articles on the news, features, reviews, and advertisements Often shortened to paper
  2. (as modifier): a newspaper article
2.
a less common name for newsprint
Word Origin and History for newspaper
n.

1660s, though the thing itself is older (see gazette); from news (n.) + paper (n.).

[T]he newspaper that drops on your doorstep is a partial, hasty, incomplete, inevitably somewhat flawed and inaccurate rendering of some of the things we have heard about in the past twenty-four hours -- distorted, despite our best efforts to eliminate gross bias, by the very process of compression that makes it possible for you to lift it from the doorstep and read it in about an hour. If we labeled the product accurately, then we could immediately add: But it's the best we could do under the circumstances, and we will be back tomorrow with a corrected and updated version. [David Broder, Pulitzer Prize acceptance speech, 1973]