magazine meaning

• Noun: magazine  `magu'zeen
  1. A periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it
     "it takes several years before a magazine starts to break even or make money"
     - mag 
  2. Product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object
     "tripped over a pile of magazines" 
  3. A business firm that publishes magazines
     "he works for a magazine"
     - magazine publisher 
  4. A light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required
     - cartridge 
  5. A storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored
     - powder store, powder magazine 
  6. A metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
     - cartridge holder, cartridge clip, clip

  Derived forms: magazines

  Type of: depot, entrepot, lad mag [UK], press, product, production, public press, publication, publisher, publishing company, publishing firm, publishing house, storage, store, storehouse, supply chamber

  Part of: camera, gun, photographic camera

  Encyclopedia: Magazine, AR Magazine Magazine, Arkansas Magazine, Ar

• 
  [Architecture]
  

  A storage place for ammunition and explosives; also see powder house.

• 
  [Business]
  AmE / noun [C]

  CONSUMER MAGAZINE, TRADE MAGAZINE

  a type of large thin book with a paper cover that you can buy every week or month, containing articles, photographs, etc., often on a particular topic:

  a women's/men's magazine

  a magazine aimed at/for elderly people

  a glossy fashion magazine

  They publish more than 20 specialist magazine titles.

  a monthly/quarterly/weekly magazine

  ◆ a colour/glossy magazine

  ◆ a business/fashion/lifestyle/music/specialist magazine

  ◆ a copy/ an edition/issue of a magazine

  ◆ to launch/produce/publish/run a magazine

  ◆ to buy/get/subscribe to a magazine

• 
  [Medicine]
  A publication issued at stated,more or less regular,intervals.

• colour magazine:     or colour magazin ...
• consumer magazine:    [Business]noun [C] ...
• electronic magazine:    [Computer]<mess ...

Examples

1. the interview is exclusive to this magazine.
2. the magazine had introduced a medical column.
3. he bought a bound volume of the magazine.
4. prackle still looked at his magazine.
5. there are some magazines on the television.