different between magazine vs gazette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, store”), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse”), ultimately from Arabic ????????? pl (ma??zin), plural of ???????? (ma?zan, “storeroom, storehouse”), noun of place from ??????? (?azana, “to store, to stock, to lay up”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mæ???zi?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mæ???zin/, /?mæ??zin/
• Rhymes: -i?n
• Hyphenation: mag?a?zine

Noun

magazine (plural magazines)

1. A non-academic periodical publication, generally consisting of sheets of paper folded in half and stapled at the fold.
3. An ammunition storehouse.
4. A chamber in a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
5. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
6. (dated) A country or district especially rich in natural products.
7. (dated) A city viewed as a marketing center.
8. (dated) A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
9. (television) A collection of Teletext pages.
   • 1983, Channels of Communications (volume 3, page 41)

     Most teletext "magazines" contain about 100 pages of information, typically including news headlines, weather reports, sports scores, video games, and stock prices.

   • 1984, Telecommunications (volume 18, page 89)

     The operator is able to build Teletext magazines of, typically, 100 pages per magazine, specify transmission times […]

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English magazine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.?a.zin/

Noun

magazine m (plural magazines)

1. magazine (periodical publication)

   Synonyms: revue, périodique

Further reading

• “magazine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

English magazine

Noun

magazine m (plural magazines)

1. magazine (publication, especially the supplement of a newspaper)

   Synonym: rivista

Further reading

• magazine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Noun

magazine m (plural magazines)

1. department store (store containing many departments)

   Synonym: loja de departamento

Romanian

Noun

magazine n pl

1. plural of magazin

English

Etymology

1605; borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetian gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper. Compare penny dreadful, dime novel. See gazzetta for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

gazette (plural gazettes)

1. A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; especially, the official journal published by the British government, containing legal and state notices.

Derived terms

• gazetteer
• have one's name in the Gazette

Translations

Descendants

• ? Kikuyu: ngath?ti
• ? Maori: k?hiti
• ? Swahili: gazeti

Verb

gazette (third-person singular simple present gazettes, present participle gazetting, simple past and past participle gazetted)

1. To publish in a gazette.
2. (Britain) To announce the status of in an official gazette. This pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.

Derived terms

• degazette

Translations

See also

• dime novel
• penny dreadful

French

Etymology

From Italian gazzetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.z?t/

Noun

gazette f (plural gazettes)

1. gazette

Descendants

Further reading

• “gazette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

West Flemish

Etymology

Borrowed from French gazette.

Noun

gazette f

1. newspaper (printed sheet published periodically)