a printed publication issued at regular and usually close intervals, especially daily or weekly, and commonly containing news, comment, features, and advertising: When we were kids here, there was only one daily newspaper, and it covered the news for four counties.
a business organization publishing such a publication: Which newspaper did your aunt work for?
a single issue or copy of such a publication: Grab one of those free newspapers on the way out.
an online version of a newspaper: I’ve been reading several upstate newspapers on my laptop lately, and I’m wondering how many of them still have print editions.
newsprint.
Origin of newspaper
First recorded in 1660–70; news + paper
OTHER WORDS FROM newspaper
news·pa·per·dom,nounnews·pa·per·ish,adjective
Words nearby newspaper
New Smyrna Beach, new sol, New South, New South Wales, New Spain, newspaper, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newspeak, news peg, newsperson
Explicit or coded racial justifications for the measure were rare, but not unheard of, based on archived newspaper clippings.
Morning Report: A Century of Single Family Home Supremacy|Voice of San Diego|August 27, 2020|Voice of San Diego
References to race – explicit or coded – were rare, but not unheard of, during the run-up to the city’s decision, according to newspaper coverage at the time.
Single-Family Zoning’s Century of Supremacy in San Diego|Andrew Keatts|August 26, 2020|Voice of San Diego
Hong worked at the UN Development Program and then as a journalist for the People’s Daily, the largest newspaper in China, which is owned by the government.
Inside China’s unexpected quest to protect data privacy|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Santa Cruz also still has its newspaper, the Santa Cruz Sentinel, that it will be up against.
‘This is not your grandfather’s Patch’: Lookout Local wants to be the modern local news of Santa Cruz|Kayleigh Barber|August 17, 2020|Digiday
No, instead, the newspaper has now written, as fact, and not corrected, that it itself, as a newspaper, endorses candidates.
Politics Report: Who Will Get the Midway Rose?|Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts|August 15, 2020|Voice of San Diego
And then the Vatican newspaper: “Pope performs miracle allowing Fidel to walk on water.”
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind|Brin-Jonathan Butler|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was an attempt to combat a growing chill on free speech in Turkey while placing his newspaper at the center of the debate.
Turkey Arrests Journalists in Crackdown|Jesse Rosenfeld|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The increasingly vicious debate has since migrated into newspaper columns and TV.
Do They Know It’s Time to Stop Band Aid?|Tom Sykes|November 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
By Jason McGahan No newspaper dares to publish the truth about the drug lords in Tamaulipas.
7 Must-Read Stories about Mexican Cartels, Kansas City and Picasso: The Best of The Beast|William Boot|October 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Guilavogui clapped his empty hands together and went up to the street to fold the newspaper dispensers up by the subway entrance.
From Ebola Country to NYC’s Subways|Michael Daly|October 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She was to the publisher what a staff contributor is to a newspaper.
Mary Wollstonecraft|Elizabeth Robins Pennell
He was calmly reading a newspaper and having a morning smoke, until it should be time to go out.
Mr. Isaacs|F. Marion Crawford
Whatever his causes of complaint, they were of too delicate and secret a nature for seconds, bullets, and newspaper paragraphs!
Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It materialised in newspaper men calling out so loudly that no words whatever could be heard.
The Forsyte Saga, Complete|John Galsworthy
The English newspaper, like many other great inventions, was a thing of gradual growth.
The Pictorial Press|Mason Jackson
British Dictionary definitions for newspaper
newspaper
/ (ˈnjuːzˌpeɪpə) /
noun
a weekly or daily publication consisting of folded sheets and containing articles on the news, features, reviews, and advertisementsOften shortened to: paper