NEWSPAPER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does newspaper mean? 

• NEWSPAPER (noun)
  The noun NEWSPAPER has 4 senses:

1. a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements

2. a business firm that publishes newspapers

3. the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher

4. cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers

  Familiarity information: NEWSPAPER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWSPAPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

newspaper; paper

Context example:

he read his newspaper at breakfast

Hypernyms ("newspaper" is a kind of...):

press; public press (the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines)

Meronyms (parts of "newspaper"):

rotogravure (printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press)

column; editorial; newspaper column (an article giving opinions or perspectives)

feature; feature article (a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine)

news article; news story; newspaper article (an article reporting news)

headline; newspaper headline (the heading or caption of a newspaper article)

sports section (the section of a newspaper that reports on sports)

news item (an item in a newspaper)

cartoon strip; comic strip; funnies; strip (a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "newspaper"):

daily (a newspaper that is published every day)

gazette (a newspaper or official journal)

school newspaper; school paper (a newspaper written and published by students in a school)

rag; sheet; tabloid (newspaper with half-size pages)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A business firm that publishes newspapers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

newspaper; newspaper publisher; paper

Context example:

Murdoch owns many newspapers

Hypernyms ("newspaper" is a kind of...):

publisher; publishing company; publishing firm; publishing house (a firm in the publishing business)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

newspaper; paper

Context example:

when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper

Hypernyms ("newspaper" is a kind of...):

product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

newspaper; newsprint

Context example:

they used bales of newspaper every day

Hypernyms ("newspaper" is a kind of...):

paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)

 Context examples 

She closed the door, leaving me solus with Mr. St. John, who sat opposite, a book or newspaper in his hand.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Has he paid last week's board?" he shot across the top of the newspaper.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I wonder masel' who'd be bothered tellin' lies to them—even the newspapers, which is full of fool-talk.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But Buck did not read the newspapers, and he did not know that Manuel, one of the gardener’s helpers, was an undesirable acquaintance.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The gentleman experienced some change of feeling; he drew back his chair, took a newspaper from the table, and glancing over it, said, in a colder voice: Are you pleased with Kent?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“No doubt the day on which he was perturbed was the day when he had seen of their release in the newspapers.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jo's eyes sparkled, for it is always pleasant to be believed in, and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and glanced my eye over it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the meantime the newspapers were read at Sierra Vista, not so much with interest as with anxiety.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

On this particular evening, Lestrade had spoken of the weather and the newspapers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)