Definition of back number in English:

back number

noun

British

1An issue of a periodical earlier than the current one.
Example sentencesExamples
- Recent back numbers are usually available at a bargain price to new members.
- He had seen his exhibition advertised in a back number of the magazine and used one of his last two remaining postage stamps to send him photographs of his figures in pastel.
- But when I last visited the shop, the owner directed me to a pile of back numbers of a journal that was neither dead nor Indian.
- But it is disheartening if you've set aside a Saturday evening and travelled ten miles for a game to be eliminated in 1902 and spend the rest of the evening thumbing disconsolately through dog-eared back numbers of magazines.
- He and two co-authors read through back numbers of various urban gay community papers, mostly of the giveaway sort that are laden with bar ads and personals.
- Get out your file of back numbers of the magazine and read what was written in form of bitter complaints last year.
- Our website also carries at least three complete articles per back number in pdf format.
- On the off-chance that I might come across his views on forest nudity, I trawled through back numbers of the international Catholic weekly.
- Also, partly moth-eaten back numbers of forgotten magazines of the 1950s or even earlier may catch your eye.
- But some of these back numbers show up in bookstores and vendors' stands near universities.
- It is fascinating to read the back numbers of what was one woman's unique contribution to our local community.
- In secret she and he carried his copies of the journal down Grenfell Street into her office and stashed them in the storeroom under back numbers of another publication.
1. 1.1informal A person or thing seen as outdated or past their prime.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The UN seems even more of a back number than it did in March.
  Not much past sixty, he began to regard and carry himself as an old man, not at all displeased to be considered a back number.
  In his essay he noted that there was ‘a good deal of wounded amour propre about Leningrad, a coldly handsome and once arrogant old capital, now viewed as something of a back number by the Moscow arrivistes’.
  The gelding, no back number at the age of nine, can show his junior rivals a clean pair of heels at Musselburgh tomorrow.
  We secular Europeans are the back numbers, not them.
  The gelding, at ten years old, is in the twilight of his career but showed he was no back number at York last month when a good second to his opponent over an inadequate one mile and six furlongs.
  He loves cut in the ground and coming round a bend and showed he's far from a back number when third behind his two opponents in the Rockingham at the Curragh.
  Though he showed flashes of the old brilliance, fashionable opinion increasingly considered him obsolete, a back number from a bygone era.
  The new car is nice though, a sporty back number with electric everything and stainless steel sports pedals, with holes in, probably so you can put the pedal to the metal faster.
  The works of the authors became unfashionable, and when he immigrated to the Lower East Side in 1907 he found himself a back number, outdistanced by his offspring.
  It would be stupid to write him off as a back number on the strength of that Kempton run alone.
  And the gelding showed he was no back number by making a successful reappearance at Huntingdon a month ago.
  Synonyms
  fogey, old fogey, conservative, traditionalist, conventionalist, diehard, conformist, bourgeois, museum piece, fossil, dinosaur, troglodyte

Definition of back number in US English:

back number

nounˈˌbæk ˈnəmbərˈˌbak ˈnəmbər

British

1An issue of a periodical earlier than the current one.
Example sentencesExamples
- In secret she and he carried his copies of the journal down Grenfell Street into her office and stashed them in the storeroom under back numbers of another publication.
- Get out your file of back numbers of the magazine and read what was written in form of bitter complaints last year.
- But when I last visited the shop, the owner directed me to a pile of back numbers of a journal that was neither dead nor Indian.
- But it is disheartening if you've set aside a Saturday evening and travelled ten miles for a game to be eliminated in 1902 and spend the rest of the evening thumbing disconsolately through dog-eared back numbers of magazines.
- He had seen his exhibition advertised in a back number of the magazine and used one of his last two remaining postage stamps to send him photographs of his figures in pastel.
- Also, partly moth-eaten back numbers of forgotten magazines of the 1950s or even earlier may catch your eye.
- On the off-chance that I might come across his views on forest nudity, I trawled through back numbers of the international Catholic weekly.
- Recent back numbers are usually available at a bargain price to new members.
- But some of these back numbers show up in bookstores and vendors' stands near universities.
- Our website also carries at least three complete articles per back number in pdf format.
- It is fascinating to read the back numbers of what was one woman's unique contribution to our local community.
- He and two co-authors read through back numbers of various urban gay community papers, mostly of the giveaway sort that are laden with bar ads and personals.
1. 1.1informal A person or thing seen as old-fashioned.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The works of the authors became unfashionable, and when he immigrated to the Lower East Side in 1907 he found himself a back number, outdistanced by his offspring.
  We secular Europeans are the back numbers, not them.
  And the gelding showed he was no back number by making a successful reappearance at Huntingdon a month ago.
  The gelding, no back number at the age of nine, can show his junior rivals a clean pair of heels at Musselburgh tomorrow.
  The gelding, at ten years old, is in the twilight of his career but showed he was no back number at York last month when a good second to his opponent over an inadequate one mile and six furlongs.
  Though he showed flashes of the old brilliance, fashionable opinion increasingly considered him obsolete, a back number from a bygone era.
  He loves cut in the ground and coming round a bend and showed he's far from a back number when third behind his two opponents in the Rockingham at the Curragh.
  In his essay he noted that there was ‘a good deal of wounded amour propre about Leningrad, a coldly handsome and once arrogant old capital, now viewed as something of a back number by the Moscow arrivistes’.
  The UN seems even more of a back number than it did in March.
  The new car is nice though, a sporty back number with electric everything and stainless steel sports pedals, with holes in, probably so you can put the pedal to the metal faster.
  It would be stupid to write him off as a back number on the strength of that Kempton run alone.
  Not much past sixty, he began to regard and carry himself as an old man, not at all displeased to be considered a back number.
  Synonyms
  fogey, old fogey, conservative, traditionalist, conventionalist, diehard, conformist, bourgeois, museum piece, fossil, dinosaur, troglodyte

单词	back number
释义	Definition of back number in English: back number noun British 1An issue of a periodical earlier than the current one. Example sentencesExamples Recent back numbers are usually available at a bargain price to new members. He had seen his exhibition advertised in a back number of the magazine and used one of his last two remaining postage stamps to send him photographs of his figures in pastel. But when I last visited the shop, the owner directed me to a pile of back numbers of a journal that was neither dead nor Indian. But it is disheartening if you've set aside a Saturday evening and travelled ten miles for a game to be eliminated in 1902 and spend the rest of the evening thumbing disconsolately through dog-eared back numbers of magazines. He and two co-authors read through back numbers of various urban gay community papers, mostly of the giveaway sort that are laden with bar ads and personals. Get out your file of back numbers of the magazine and read what was written in form of bitter complaints last year. Our website also carries at least three complete articles per back number in pdf format. On the off-chance that I might come across his views on forest nudity, I trawled through back numbers of the international Catholic weekly. Also, partly moth-eaten back numbers of forgotten magazines of the 1950s or even earlier may catch your eye. But some of these back numbers show up in bookstores and vendors' stands near universities. It is fascinating to read the back numbers of what was one woman's unique contribution to our local community. In secret she and he carried his copies of the journal down Grenfell Street into her office and stashed them in the storeroom under back numbers of another publication. 1.1informal A person or thing seen as outdated or past their prime. Example sentencesExamples The UN seems even more of a back number than it did in March. Not much past sixty, he began to regard and carry himself as an old man, not at all displeased to be considered a back number. In his essay he noted that there was ‘a good deal of wounded amour propre about Leningrad, a coldly handsome and once arrogant old capital, now viewed as something of a back number by the Moscow arrivistes’. The gelding, no back number at the age of nine, can show his junior rivals a clean pair of heels at Musselburgh tomorrow. We secular Europeans are the back numbers, not them. The gelding, at ten years old, is in the twilight of his career but showed he was no back number at York last month when a good second to his opponent over an inadequate one mile and six furlongs. He loves cut in the ground and coming round a bend and showed he's far from a back number when third behind his two opponents in the Rockingham at the Curragh. Though he showed flashes of the old brilliance, fashionable opinion increasingly considered him obsolete, a back number from a bygone era. The new car is nice though, a sporty back number with electric everything and stainless steel sports pedals, with holes in, probably so you can put the pedal to the metal faster. The works of the authors became unfashionable, and when he immigrated to the Lower East Side in 1907 he found himself a back number, outdistanced by his offspring. It would be stupid to write him off as a back number on the strength of that Kempton run alone. And the gelding showed he was no back number by making a successful reappearance at Huntingdon a month ago. Synonyms fogey, old fogey, conservative, traditionalist, conventionalist, diehard, conformist, bourgeois, museum piece, fossil, dinosaur, troglodyte Definition of back number in US English: back number nounˈˌbæk ˈnəmbərˈˌbak ˈnəmbər British 1An issue of a periodical earlier than the current one. Example sentencesExamples In secret she and he carried his copies of the journal down Grenfell Street into her office and stashed them in the storeroom under back numbers of another publication. Get out your file of back numbers of the magazine and read what was written in form of bitter complaints last year. But when I last visited the shop, the owner directed me to a pile of back numbers of a journal that was neither dead nor Indian. But it is disheartening if you've set aside a Saturday evening and travelled ten miles for a game to be eliminated in 1902 and spend the rest of the evening thumbing disconsolately through dog-eared back numbers of magazines. He had seen his exhibition advertised in a back number of the magazine and used one of his last two remaining postage stamps to send him photographs of his figures in pastel. Also, partly moth-eaten back numbers of forgotten magazines of the 1950s or even earlier may catch your eye. On the off-chance that I might come across his views on forest nudity, I trawled through back numbers of the international Catholic weekly. Recent back numbers are usually available at a bargain price to new members. But some of these back numbers show up in bookstores and vendors' stands near universities. Our website also carries at least three complete articles per back number in pdf format. It is fascinating to read the back numbers of what was one woman's unique contribution to our local community. He and two co-authors read through back numbers of various urban gay community papers, mostly of the giveaway sort that are laden with bar ads and personals. 1.1informal A person or thing seen as old-fashioned. Example sentencesExamples The works of the authors became unfashionable, and when he immigrated to the Lower East Side in 1907 he found himself a back number, outdistanced by his offspring. We secular Europeans are the back numbers, not them. And the gelding showed he was no back number by making a successful reappearance at Huntingdon a month ago. The gelding, no back number at the age of nine, can show his junior rivals a clean pair of heels at Musselburgh tomorrow. The gelding, at ten years old, is in the twilight of his career but showed he was no back number at York last month when a good second to his opponent over an inadequate one mile and six furlongs. Though he showed flashes of the old brilliance, fashionable opinion increasingly considered him obsolete, a back number from a bygone era. He loves cut in the ground and coming round a bend and showed he's far from a back number when third behind his two opponents in the Rockingham at the Curragh. In his essay he noted that there was ‘a good deal of wounded amour propre about Leningrad, a coldly handsome and once arrogant old capital, now viewed as something of a back number by the Moscow arrivistes’. The UN seems even more of a back number than it did in March. The new car is nice though, a sporty back number with electric everything and stainless steel sports pedals, with holes in, probably so you can put the pedal to the metal faster. It would be stupid to write him off as a back number on the strength of that Kempton run alone. Not much past sixty, he began to regard and carry himself as an old man, not at all displeased to be considered a back number. Synonyms fogey, old fogey, conservative, traditionalist, conventionalist, diehard, conformist, bourgeois, museum piece, fossil, dinosaur, troglodyte
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