单词 | newspaperless |
释义 | newspaperlessadj. Without a newspaper; deprived of newspapers. ΚΠ 1861 Dublin Univ. Mag. 58 281/2 I have no notion what may be stirring even in the Indian world, much less the European, our dawks having..left me newspaperless. c1889 ‘M. Twain’ Speeches (1923) 152 This was a newspaperless globe. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 10 Aug. 7/2 Newspaperless Sweden... No newspapers..are published here this morning. 1920 Glasgow Herald 1 Sept. 6 The eagerness with which a newspaperless public will snatch at anything conveying a semblance of the news of the day. 1959 Public Opinion Q. 23 391 A variety of alternative communication channels was available to newspaperless New Yorkers. 1997 Independent (Nexis) 24 Sept. 14 The small craggy-featured man..who sat down next to me at breakfast yesterday was ominously newspaperless—and thus in search of a conversation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1861 |
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