NEWSPAPER
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)
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 gathering and publishing of news in the form of newspapers or magazines)
Meronyms (parts of "newspaper"):
cartoon strip; comic strip; funnies; strip (a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book)
news item (an item in a newspaper)
sports section (the section of a newspaper that reports on sports)
headline; newspaper headline (the heading or caption of a newspaper article)
news article; news story; newspaper article (an article reporting news)
feature; feature article (a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine)
column; editorial; newspaper column (an article giving opinions or perspectives)
rotogravure (printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press)
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)
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)
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)
Meaning:
Cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
newsprint; newspaper
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)
