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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 magazineplay

  Familiarity information: NEWSPAPER CLIPPING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NEWSPAPER CLIPPING (noun)


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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