newspaper

newspaper

English

A stack of newspapers

Etymology

From news +‎ paper.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnjuːsˌpeɪpə/, /ˈnjuːzˌpeɪpə/
• (General American) enPR: n(y)o͞oz'pāpər, IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)uzˌpeɪpɚ/

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• Hyphenation: news‧pa‧per

Noun

newspaper (countable and uncountable, plural newspapers)

1. (countable) A publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles.

   Synonyms: daily, paper, (derogatory) rag

   • 1922, P. B. M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home‎, 2nd edition, London: Philip Allan & Co., page 64:

     There is, however, one habit of reading which has become almost a social evil; and that is the habit of reading newspapers which many indulge in, morning, noon, and night.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess‎:

     ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]?  Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?

2. (uncountable, countable) A quantity of or one of the types of paper on which newspapers are printed.

   Synonym: newsprint

Derived terms

• e-newspaper
• newspaperdom
• newspaperese
• newspaperish
• newspaperism
• newspaperland
• newspaperless
• newspaperman
• newspaperperson
• newspaper round
• newspaperwoman
• newspapery
• newspaporial
• online newspaper

Translations

publication

Abkhaz: агазеҭ (agazet) Afrikaans: koerant (af) Albanian: gazetë (sq) f, fletore (sq) f Amharic: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa) Arabic: جَرِيدَة‎ f (jarīda), صَحِيفَة‎ f (ṣaḥīfa) Egyptian Arabic: جرنان‎ m (gornān), جورنال‎ m (gōrnāl) (Alexandria) Hijazi Arabic: جَرِيدَة‎ f (jarīda) South Levantine Arabic: جَرِيدَة‎ f (jarīda) Armenian: թերթ (hy) (tʿertʿ) Assamese: বাতৰি (batori) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܦܵܪܝܵܘܡܵܐ‎ m (spāryāwmā) Asturian: periódicu m Azerbaijani: qəzet (az) Bashkir: гәзит (gäzit) Basque: egunkari Belarusian: газе́та f (hazjéta), газэ́та f (hazéta) (Taraškievica) Bengali: আখবার (bn) (akhôbar), সংবাদপত্র (sôṅbadôpôtrô) Breton: kazetenn (br) f Bulgarian: ве́стник (bg) m (véstnik) Burmese: သတင်းစာ (my) (sa.tang:ca) Buryat: һонин (honin) Catalan: diari (ca) m, periòdic (ca) m Chechen: газета (gazeta), газет (gazet) Chichewa: nyuzi Chinese: Cantonese: 報紙, 报纸 (bou3 zi2) Dungan: бозы (bozɨ), бо (bo) Hakka: 報紙, 报纸 (po-chṳ́), 新聞紙, 新闻纸 (sîn-vùn-chṳ́) Jin: 報紙, 报纸 (bau3 zi2) Mandarin: 報紙／报纸 (zh) (bàozhǐ), 報／报 (zh) (bào), 報章／报章 (zh) (bàozhāng) Min Dong: 報紙, 报纸 (bó̤-cāi) Min Nan: 報紙 (zh-min-nan), 报纸 (pò-chóa), 新聞 (zh-min-nan), 新闻 (sin-bûn), 新聞紙, 新闻纸 (sin-bûn-chóa) Wu: 報紙, 报纸 (pau tsr) Chuukese: simpung Chuvash: хаҫат (haś̬at) Crimean Tatar: gazeta Czech: noviny (cs) f pl Danish: avis (da) c, dagblad (da) n, tidsskrift (da) c Dhivehi: ނޫސްް‎ Dutch: krant (nl) f, nieuwsblad (nl) n, dagblad (nl) n Elfdalian: tiningg f Erzya: куляконёв (kuljakonjov), газета (gazeta) Esperanto: ĵurnalo (eo) Estonian: ajaleht (et), leht (et) Faroese: blað n, tíðindablað n, dagblað n Fijian: niusi.veva Finnish: sanomalehti (fi), lehti (fi) French: journal (fr) m Fula: Latin: (please verify) kibirdi, (please verify) surnal Adlam: (please verify) 𞤳𞤭𞤦𞤭𞤪𞤣𞤭‎, (please verify) 𞤧𞤵𞤪𞤲𞤢‎ Galician: xornal (gl) m Georgian: გაზეთი (gazeti) German: Zeitung (de) f Greek: εφημερίδα (el) f (efimerída) Greenlandic: aviisi Guaraní: kuatiahaipyre Gujarati: અખબાર (gu) (akhabār), છાપું (gu) n (chāpũ), વર્તમાનપત્ર (vartamānpatra) Hausa: jarida Hebrew: עִיתּוֹן‎ (he) (‘itón) Hindi: अख़बार (hi) m (axbār), समाचारपत्र (hi) m (samācārpatra), वृत्तपत्र (hi) m (vŕttapatra), अखबार (hi) m (akhbār), वार्तापत्रिका f (vārtāpatrikā), रोज़नामा m (roznāmā), पत्र (hi) m (patra), पत्रिका (hi) f (patrikā) Hungarian: hírlap (hu), újság (hu) Hunsrik: Zeidung f Icelandic: dagblað (is) n, fréttablað n, blað (is) n Ido: jurnalo (io) Inari Sami: aavis Indonesian: koran (id), surat kabar (id) Ingrian: gazetti Irish: nuachtán (ga) m, páipéar nuachta m Italian: giornale (it) m, quotidiano (it) m Japanese: 新聞 (ja) (しんぶん, shinbun) Javanese: ariwara, ariwarta, ariwarti, koran (jv) Kalmyk: сонин (sonin) Kannada: ವೃತ್ತಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (kn) (vṛttapatrike), ಸಮಾಚಾರ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (kn) (samācāra patrike), ವಾರ್ತಾಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (kn) (vārtāpatrike) Kazakh: газет (kk) (gazet), үнжария (ünjariä) Khmer: កាសែត (km) (kaasaet), សារពត៌មាន (saapɔədɑɑmiən) Korean: 신문(新聞) (ko) (sinmun) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ڕۆژنامە‎ (ku) (rojname) Northern Kurdish: rojname (ku) f, nûçename (ku) f Kyrgyz: гезит (ky) (gezit), кабаркагаз (kabarkagaz) Lao: ໜັງສືພິມ (nang sư̄ phim) Latin: acta diurna n pl, acta (la) n pl, diurnum n Latvian: avīze (lv) f, laikraksts m Lithuanian: laikraštis (lt) m Luxembourgish: Zeitung (lb) f Lü: ᦐᧂᦉᦹᦘᦲᧄ (ṅangṡuephiim) Macedonian: весник m (vesnik) Malagasy: gazety (mg) Malay: akhbar (ms), surat khabar (ms) Malayalam: ദിനപത്രം (ml) (dinapatraṃ) Maltese: ġurnal m Maori: nūpepa Marathi: वृत्तपत्र (vruttapatra) Moksha: газета (gazeta) Mongolian: Cyrillic: сонин (mn) (sonin) Mongolian: ᠰᠣᠨᠢᠨ (sonin) Navajo: aseezį́ binaaltsoos, haneʼ binaaltsoos Nepali: अखबार (ne) (akhabār) Norman: gâzette f Northern Sami: aviisa Norwegian: Bokmål: avis (no) m or f Nynorsk: avis f Occitan: jornal (oc) m Okinawan: かみはぶ (kamihabu) Oriya: ସମ୍ବାଦପତ୍ର (sômbadôpôtrô), ଖବରକାଗଜ (or) (khôbôrôkagôjô) Oromo: gaazexaa Ossetian: газет (gazet) Ottoman Turkish: روزنامه‎ (ruzname) Pashto: ورځپاڼه‎ (ps) (wrajpãṇa), جريده‎ (ps) (ǰaridá), روزنامه‎ (roznāmá), اخبار‎ (ps) m pl (axbār), ژورنال‎ (žurnãl) Persian: روزنامه‎ (fa) (ruz-nâme) Pohnpeian: simpung Plautdietsch: Zeitunk f Polish: gazeta (pl) f Portuguese: jornal (pt) m Punjabi: ਅਖਬਾਰ (pa) f (akhabār), ਸਮਾਚਾਰ ਪੱਤਰ (pa) m (samācār pattar) Romanian: ziar (ro) n Romansch: gasetta f Russian: газе́та (ru) f (gazéta) Rusyn: нови́ны f pl (novýnŷ) Santali: ᱵᱮᱣᱨᱟ ᱥᱟᱠᱟᱢ (bevra sakam), ᱠᱷᱚᱵᱚᱨ ᱠᱟᱜᱚᱡᱽ Scottish Gaelic: pàipear-naidheachd m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: но̀вине f pl Roman: nòvine (sh) f pl Sindhi: اخبار‎ (sd) Sinhalese: පුවත්පත (puwatpata), පත්තරේ (pattarē) Skolt Sami: gaˊzaat, gaˊzeâˊt Slovak: noviny f pl Slovene: časopis (sl) m, časnik (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: casnik m Upper Sorbian: nowiny f pl Sotho: koranta (st) Spanish: periódico (es) m, diario (es) m, rotativo (es) m Swahili: gazeti (sw) class 5/6 Swedish: tidning (sv) c, dagstidning (sv) c, morgontidning (sv) c, kvällstidning (sv) c Tagalog: dyariyo, pahayagan (tl) Tajik: газета (tg) (gazeta), рӯзнома (tg) (rüznoma) Tamil: நாளிதழ் (ta) (nāḷitaḻ), செய்தித்தாள் (ta) (ceytittāḷ) Tatar: газет (ğazet), гәзит (gäzit) Telugu: వార్తాపత్రిక (te) (vārtāpatrika) Thai: หนังสือพิมพ์ (th) (nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ-pim) Tibetan: ཚག་པར (tshag par) Tigrinya: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa) Tok Pisin: niuspepa Tundra Nenets: газета Turkish: gazete (tr), günce (tr), gaste (tr) (colloquial), yenün, ceride (tr), ruzname (tr) Turkmen: gazet Udmurt: газета (gazeta), газет (gazet) Ukrainian: газе́та (uk) f (hazéta) Urdu: اخبار‎ m (axbār), روزنامہ‎ m (roz-nâma), سماچار پتر‎ m (samācār-patr) Uyghur: گېزىت‎ (gëzit) Uzbek: roʻznoma (uz), gazeta (uz) Vietnamese: tờ báo, báo (vi), báo chí (vi) Vilamovian: cajtung f Welsh: papur newydd (cy) m; newyddiadur m West Frisian: krante c Western Panjabi: خبر‎ (pnb) f Yakut: хаһыат (xahıat) Yiddish: צײַטונג‎ f (tsaytung) Yoruba: ìwé ìròyìn Zazaki: qezeta m rocdek c Zhuang: bauqceij

paper on which newspapers are printed

Afrikaans: koerantpapier Armenian: թերթ (hy) (tʿertʿ) Bengali: খবরের কাগজ (khôbôrer kagôz) Chinese: Hakka: 報紙, 报纸 (po-chṳ́), 新聞紙, 新闻纸 (sîn-vùn-chṳ́) Mandarin: 新聞用紙／新闻用纸 (xīnwén yòng zhǐ); 白報紙／白报纸 (bái bàozhǐ) Czech: novinový papír m Danish: avispapir Dutch: krantenpapier (nl) n Estonian: ajalehepaber Finnish: sanomalehtipaperi French: papier journal (fr) m Galician: papel de xornal m German: Zeitungspapier (de) n Icelandic: dagblaðapappír m Italian: carta da giornale f Japanese: 新聞紙 (ja) (しんぶんし, shinbunshi) Latvian: avīžpapīrs m, avīze (lv) f Lithuanian: laikraštinis popierius m Maltese: gazzetta (mt) f Norwegian: avispapir n Persian: کاغذ روزنامه‎ (kağaz-e ruznâme) Portuguese: papel de periódico m, papel-jornal m Russian: газе́тная бума́га f (gazétnaja bumága) Scottish Gaelic: pàipear-naidheachd m Serbo-Croatian: Latin: novine (sh) f pl Slovak: novinový papier m Spanish: papel de periódico m Swahili: gazeti (sw) Swedish: tidningspapper (sv) n Tagalog: dyariyo, pahayagan (tl) Tamil: செய்தித்தாள் (ta) (ceytittāḷ) Thai: หนังสือพิมพ์ (th) (nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ-pim) Turkish: gazete kağıdı Zazaki: qağıtê qezeti m

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Translations to be checked

Yiddish: (please verify) בלאַט‎ n (blat)

See also

• fish wrap
• rag
• scandal sheet
• tabloid

Verb

newspaper (third-person singular simple present newspapers, present participle newspapering, simple past and past participle newspapered)

1. (transitive) To cover with newspaper.

   She newspapered one end of the room before painting the bookcase.

2. (intransitive, transitive) To engage in the business of journalism

   His newspapered his way through the South on the sports beat, avoiding dry towns.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To harass somebody through newspaper articles.

   He got newspapered out of public life.

Usage notes

• The engage in journalism sense usually appears in its gerund form, newspapering.
• The harass sense usually appears in passive constructions.

Further reading

• newspaper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia