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NEWSPAPER CLIPPING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does newspaper clipping mean?
• NEWSPAPER CLIPPING (noun)
The noun NEWSPAPER CLIPPING has 1 sense:
1. an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
Familiarity information: NEWSPAPER CLIPPING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
clipping; cutting; newspaper clipping; press clipping; press cutting
Context example:
he searched through piles of letters and clippings
Hypernyms ("newspaper clipping" is a kind of...):
excerpt; excerption; extract; selection (a passage selected from a larger work)
Context examples
There was no breath of life in it, and yet it sold, at two cents a word, twenty dollars a thousand—the newspaper clipping had said so.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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