different between broadsheet vs tabloid

English

Etymology

broad +? sheet

Noun

broadsheet (plural broadsheets)

1. A newspaper having pages of standard dimensions (as opposed to a tabloid), especially one that carries serious treatment of news.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 11 (iv),

     He glanced across at Wani, who was screened above the knees by the raised pink broadsheet with its headlines about record share prices, record house prices.

Synonyms

• quality newspaper

Antonyms

• tabloid
• yellow journalism

Adjective

broadsheet (not comparable)

1. In the format of a broadsheet.
2. Relating to a broadsheet or broadsheets.

   broadsheet journalism

Translations

See also

• compact

Anagrams

• sheetboard

English

Etymology

From a trademark for a medicine compressed into a tablet. See -oid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæbl??d/

Noun

tabloid (plural tabloids)

1. (publishing) A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of the standard format.
2. (publishing) A newspaper, especially one in this format, that favours stories of a sensational or even fictitious nature over serious news.
3. (medicine, dated) A compressed portion of drugs, chemicals, etc.; a tablet.
   • 1911, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Same Boat”:

Synonyms

• scandal sheet, tab (colloquial), yellow press

Antonyms

• broadsheet

Translations

Adjective

tabloid (not comparable)

1. In the format of a tabloid.
2. Relating to a tabloid or tabloids.

Translations

See also

• compact
• quality newspaper

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tabloid.

Noun

tabloid m (invariable)

1. tabloid

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English tabloid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tab?l?.it/

Noun

tabloid m inan

1. tabloid

Declension

Synonyms

• brukowiec, szmat?awiec