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newspaper

noun · verb · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːsˌpeɪpə/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːzˌpeɪpə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada, General-American: n(y)o͞os'pāpər
  • Canada, General-American: n(y)o͞oz'pāpər
  • Canada, General-American: /ˈn(j)usˌpeɪpɚ/
  • Canada, General-American: /ˈn(j)uzˌpeɪpɚ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: N UW1 Z P EY2 P ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A publication, usually published daily or weekly, containing news and other articles. Traditionally a print publication typically printed on cheap, low-quality paper; today usually digital and often also available in print.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

Examples

  • Many major newspapers are paywalled because they need the revenue.
  • The paper boy delivers her newspaper to her front porch every weekday.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: paper, rag, masthead

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: periodical, publication

2

noun

Meaning 2

The news organization that produces such a publication.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, metonymically

Examples

  • Holonyms: press, news media, media
  • Some newspapers are afraid to do hard-hitting investigative journalism. But this newspaper doesn't run from a fight.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A quantity of or one of the types of paper on which newspapers are printed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: newsprint

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: paper, stock

4

verb

Meaning 4

To cover with newspaper.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

To engage in the business of journalism

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, transitive

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

To harass somebody through newspaper articles.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

Examples

  • He got newspapered out of public life.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: paper

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: product, production

8

noun

Meaning 8

a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he read his newspaper at breakfast

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: paper

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: press, public press

Narrower terms: daily, gazette, school newspaper, school paper, tabloid, rag, sheet

9

noun

Meaning 9

a business firm that publishes newspapers

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Murdoch owns many newspapers

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: paper, newspaper publisher

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: publisher, publishing house, publishing firm, publishing company

10

noun

Meaning 10

cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • they used bales of newspaper every day

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: newsprint

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: paper

History

Etymology

From news + paper.

Across languages

Translations

311 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: агазеҭ (agazet) — publication
  • Afrikaans: koerant — publication
  • Albanian: gazetë — publication
  • Albanian: fletore — publication
  • Amharic: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa) — publication
  • Arabic: جَرِيدَة (jarīda) — publication
  • Arabic: صَحِيفَة (ṣaḥīfa) — publication
  • Arabic: جرنان (gornān) — publication
  • Arabic: جورنال (gōrnāl) — publication
  • Arabic: جَرِيدَة (jarīda) — publication
  • Arabic: جَرِيدَة (jarīda) — publication
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܦܵܪܝܵܘܡܵܐ (spāryāwmā) — publication
  • Armenian: թերթ (tʻertʻ) — publication
  • Assamese: বাতৰি (batori) — publication
  • Asturian: periódicu — publication
  • Asturian: papel — publication
  • Aukan: kolanti — publication
  • Azerbaijani: qəzet — publication
  • Bashkir: гәзит (gəzit) — publication
  • Basque: egunkari — publication
  • Belarusian: газе́та (hazjéta) — publication
  • Belarusian: газэ́та (hazéta) — publication
  • Bengali: সংবাদপত্র পত্রিকা (śoṅbadpotro) — publication
  • Bengali: আখবার (akhbar) — publication
  • Breton: kazetenn — publication
  • Bulgarian: ве́стник (véstnik) — publication
  • Burmese: သတင်းစာ (sa.tang:ca) — publication
  • Buryat: һонин (honin) — publication
  • Carpathian Rusyn: нови́ны (novýnŷ) — publication
  • Catalan: jornal — publication
  • Catalan: diari — publication
  • Catalan: periòdic — publication
  • Chechen: газета (gazeta) — publication
  • Chechen: газет (gazet) — publication
  • Chichewa: nyuzi — publication
  • Chinese Cantonese: 報紙 /报纸 (bou3 zi2) — publication
  • Chinese: бозы (bozɨ) — publication
  • Chinese: бо (bo) — publication
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 報紙 /报纸 (bó̤-cāi) — publication
  • Hakka Chinese: 報紙 /报纸 (po-chṳ́) — publication
  • Hakka Chinese: 新聞紙 /新闻纸 (sîn-vùn-chṳ́) — publication
  • Chinese: 報紙 /报纸 (zh-min-nan) — publication
  • Chinese: 新聞 /新闻 (zh-min-nan) — publication
  • Chinese: 新聞紙 /新闻纸 (sin-bûn-chóa) — publication
  • Jin Chinese: 報紙 /报纸 (bau3 zi2) — publication
  • Chinese Mandarin: 報紙 /报纸 (bàozhǐ) — publication
  • Chinese Mandarin: 報 /报 (bào) — publication
  • Chinese Mandarin: 報章 /报章 (bàozhāng) — publication
  • Wu Chinese: 報紙 /报纸 — publication
  • Chuukese: simpung — publication
  • Chuvash: хаҫат (haś̬at) — publication
  • Crimean Tatar: gazeta — publication
  • Czech: noviny — publication
  • Danish: avis — publication
  • Danish: dagblad — publication
  • Danish: tidsskrift — publication
  • Dhivehi: ނޫސްް — publication
  • Dutch: courant — publication
  • Dutch: dagblad — publication
  • Dutch: gazet — publication
  • Dutch: krant — publication
  • Dutch: nieuwsblad — publication
  • Elfdalian: tiningg — publication
  • Erzya: куляконёв (kuľakońov) — publication
  • Erzya: газета (gazeta) — publication
  • Esperanto: ĵurnalo — publication
  • Estonian: ajaleht — publication
  • Estonian: leht — publication
  • Faroese: blað — publication
  • Faroese: tíðindablað — publication
  • Faroese: dagblað — publication
  • Fijian: niusi.veva — publication
  • Finnish: sanomalehti — publication
  • Finnish: lehti — publication
  • French: journal — publication
  • West-Frisian: krante — publication
  • Galician: xornal — publication
  • Georgian: გაზეთი (gazeti) — publication
  • German: Zeitung — publication
  • Greek: εφημερίδα (efimerída) — publication
  • Greenlandic: aviisi — publication
  • Gujarati: અખબાર (akhabār) — publication
  • Gujarati: સમાચારપત્ર (samācārpatra) — publication
  • Gujarati: વર્તમાનપત્ર (vartamānpatra) — publication
  • Gujarati: છાપું (chāpũ) — publication
  • Haitian Creole: jounal — publication
  • Hausa: jarida — publication
  • Hawaiian: nūpepa — publication
  • Hebrew: עִיתּוֹן (‘itón) — publication
  • Hindi: अख़बार (axbār) — publication
  • Hindi: समाचारपत्र (samācārpatra) — publication
  • Hindi: पत्रिका (patrikā) — publication
  • Hungarian: hírlap — publication
  • Hungarian: újság — publication
  • Hunsrik: Zeidung — publication
  • Icelandic: dagblað — publication
  • Icelandic: fréttablað — publication
  • Icelandic: blað — publication
  • Ido: jurnalo — publication
  • Indonesian: koran — publication
  • Indonesian: surat kabar — publication
  • Ingrian: gazetti — publication
  • Irish: nuachtán — publication
  • Irish: páipéar nuachta — publication
  • Italian: giornale — publication
  • Italian: quotidiano — publication
  • Japanese: 新聞 (shinbun) — publication
  • Javanese: ariwara — publication
  • Javanese: ariwarta — publication
  • Javanese: ariwarti — publication
  • Javanese: koran — publication
  • Kalmyk: сонин (sonin) — publication
  • Kannada: ವೃತ್ತಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (vṛttapatrike) — publication
  • Kannada: ಸಮಾಚಾರ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (samācāra patrike) — publication
  • Kannada: ವಾರ್ತಾಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (vārtāpatrike) — publication
  • Kashubian: cajtung — publication
  • Kashubian: gazéta — publication
  • Kazakh: газет (gazet) — publication
  • Kazakh: үнжария (ünjariä) — publication
  • Khmer: កាសែត (kaasaet) — publication
  • Khmer: សារពត៌មាន (saapɔədɑɑmiən) — publication
  • Korean: 신문 (sinmun) — publication
  • Central Kurdish: ڕۆژنامە (rojname) — publication
  • Northern Kurdish: rojname — publication
  • Northern Kurdish: nûçename — publication
  • Kyrgyz: гезит (gezit) — publication
  • Kyrgyz: күнчө (küncö) — publication
  • Lao: ຫນັງສືພິມ (nang sư̄ phim) — publication
  • Latin: acta diurna — publication
  • Latin: acta — publication
  • Latin: diurnum — publication
  • Latvian: avīze — publication
  • Latvian: laikraksts — publication
  • Lingala: nkasa ya nsango — publication
  • Lithuanian: laikraštis — publication
  • : ᦐᧂᦉᦹᦘᦲᧄ (ṅangṡuephiim) — publication
  • Luganda: olupapula lwa mawulire — publication
  • Luxembourgish: Zeitung — publication
  • Macedonian: весник (vesnik) — publication
  • Malagasy: gazety — publication
  • Malay: akhbar — publication
  • Malay: surat khabar — publication
  • Malayalam: ദിനപത്രം (dinapatraṁ) — publication
  • Maltese: gazzetta — publication
  • Maltese: ġurnal — publication
  • Māori: nūpepa — publication
  • Marathi: वर्तमानपत्र (vartamānpatra) — publication
  • Marathi: वृत्तपत्र (vŕttapatra) — publication
  • Moksha: газета (gazeta) — publication
  • Mongolian: сонин (sonin) — publication
  • Mongolian: ᠰᠣᠨᠢᠨ (sonin) — publication
  • Navajo: aseezį́ binaaltsoos — publication
  • Navajo: haneʼ binaaltsoos — publication
  • Tundra Nenets: газета (gazyeta) — publication
  • Nepali: अखबार (akhabār) — publication
  • Norman: gâzette — publication
  • Norwegian Bokmål: avis — publication
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: avis — publication
  • Occitan: jornal — publication
  • Odia: ସମ୍ବାଦପତ୍ର (sambādapatra) — publication
  • Odia: ଖବରକାଗଜ (khabarakāgaja) — publication
  • Okinawan: かみはぶ (kamihabu) — publication
  • Oromo: gaazexaa — publication
  • Ossetian: газет (gazet) — publication
  • Pannonian Rusyn: новини (novini) — publication
  • Pashto: ورځپاڼه (wrajpāṇa) — publication
  • Pashto: جريده (jarida) — publication
  • Pashto: روزنامه (roznāma) — publication
  • Pashto: اخبار (axbār) — publication
  • Pashto: ژورنال (žurnāl) — publication
  • Persian: روزْنَامَه (rōznāma) — publication
  • Persian: جَرِیدَه (jarīda) — publication
  • Dari: روزْنَامَه (rōznāma) — publication
  • Dari: جَرِیدَه (jarīda) — publication
  • Dari: اَخْبَار (axbār) — publication
  • Iranian Persian: روزْنامِه (ruznâme) — publication
  • Iranian Persian: جَریدِه (jaride) — publication
  • Iranian Persian: اَخْبار (axbâr) — publication
  • Plautdietsch: Zeitunk — publication
  • Pohnpeian: simpung — publication
  • Polish: gazeta — publication
  • Portuguese: jornal — publication
  • Punjabi: ਅਖਬਾਰ (akhabār) — publication
  • Punjabi: ਸਮਾਚਾਰ ਪੱਤਰ (samācār pattar) — publication
  • Punjabi: خبر (xbr) — publication
  • Réunion Creole French: zournal — publication
  • Romanian: ziar — publication
  • Romansh: gasetta — publication
  • Russian: газе́та (gazéta) — publication
  • Inari-Sami: aavis — publication
  • Northern Sami: aviisa — publication
  • Skolt-Sami: gaˊzaat — publication
  • Skolt-Sami: gaˊzeâˊt — publication
  • Samoan: nusipepa — publication
  • Santali: ᱵᱮᱣᱨᱟ ᱥᱟᱠᱟᱢ (bevra sakam) — publication
  • Santali: ᱠᱷᱚᱵᱚᱨ ᱠᱟᱜᱚᱡᱽ — publication
  • Scottish Gaelic: pàipear-naidheachd — publication
  • Serbo-Croatian: но̀вине — publication
  • Serbo-Croatian: nòvine — publication
  • Silesian: cajtůng — publication
  • Sindhi: اخبار (āxbār) — publication
  • Sinhalese: පුවත්පත (puwatpata) — publication
  • Sinhalese: පත්තරේ (pattarē) — publication
  • Slovak: noviny — publication
  • Slovene: časopis — publication
  • Slovene: časnik — publication
  • Lower Sorbian: casnik — publication
  • Upper Sorbian: nowiny — publication
  • Sotho: koranta — publication
  • Southern Altai: газет (gazet) — publication
  • Spanish: periódico — publication
  • Spanish: diario — publication
  • Spanish: rotativo — publication
  • Spanish: gaceta — publication
  • Sranan Tongo: koranti — publication
  • Swahili: gazeti — publication
  • Swedish: tidning — publication
  • Swedish: dagstidning — publication
  • Swedish: morgontidning — publication
  • Swedish: kvällstidning — publication
  • Tagalog: dyariyo — publication
  • Tagalog: pahayagan — publication
  • Tajik: газета (gazeta) — publication
  • Tajik: рӯзнома (rüznoma) — publication
  • Tajik: ҷарида (jarida) — publication
  • Tamil: நாளிதழ் (nāḷitaḻ) — publication
  • Tamil: செய்தித்தாள் (ceytittāḷ) — publication
  • Tamil: நாளேடு (nāḷēṭu) — publication
  • Tatar: газет (ğäzet) — publication
  • Tatar: гәзит (gäzit) — publication
  • Telugu: వార్తాపత్రిక (vārtāpatrika) — publication
  • Thai: หนังสือพิมพ์ (nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ-pim) — publication
  • Tibetan: ཚག་པར (tshag par) — publication
  • Tigrinya: ጋዜጣ (gazeṭa) — publication
  • Tok Pisin: niuspepa — publication
  • Tokelauan: nuhipepa — publication
  • Turkish: gazete — publication
  • Turkish: günce — publication
  • Turkish: gaste — publication
  • Turkish: yenün — publication
  • Turkish: ceride — publication
  • Turkish: ruzname — publication
  • Ottoman Turkish: غزته (gazeta, gazete) — publication
  • Ottoman Turkish: روزنامه (ruzname) — publication
  • Ottoman Turkish: جریده (cerîde) — publication
  • Turkmen: gazet — publication
  • Udmurt: газет (gaźet) — publication
  • Udmurt: газета (gaźeta) — publication
  • Udmurt: куарлыдӟет (kuarlyddźet) — publication
  • Ukrainian: газе́та (hazéta) — publication
  • Urdu: اَخْبار (axbār) — publication
  • Urdu: روزْنامَہ (roznāma) — publication
  • Urdu: سَماچار پَتْر (samācār patr) — publication
  • Uyghur: گېزىت (gëzit) — publication
  • Uzbek: roʻznoma — publication
  • Uzbek: gazeta — publication
  • Uzbek: jarida — publication
  • Vietnamese: tờ báo — publication
  • Vietnamese: báo — publication
  • Vietnamese: báo chí — publication
  • Vilamovian: cajtung — publication
  • Welsh: papur newydd — publication
  • Welsh: newyddiadur — publication
  • Yakut: хаһыат (qahïat) — publication
  • Yiddish: צײַטונג (tsaytung) — publication
  • Yoruba: ìwé ìròyìn — publication
  • Zazaki: qezeta m rocdek (diq) — publication
  • Zhuang: bauqceij — publication
  • Afrikaans: koerantpapier — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Armenian: թերթ (tʻertʻ) — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Bengali: খবরের কাগজ (khoborer kagoj) — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Hakka Chinese: 報紙 /报纸 (po-chṳ́) — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Hakka Chinese: 新聞紙 /新闻纸 (sîn-vùn-chṳ́) — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Chinese Mandarin: 新聞用紙 /新闻用纸 (xīnwén yòng zhǐ) — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Chinese Mandarin: 白報紙 /白报纸 (bái bàozhǐ) — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Czech: novinový papír — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Danish: avispapir — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Dutch: krantenpapier — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Estonian: ajalehepaber — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Finnish: sanomalehtipaperi — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • French: papier journal — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Galician: papel de xornal — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • German: Zeitungspapier — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Icelandic: dagblaðapappír — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Italian: carta da giornale — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Japanese: 新聞紙 (shinbunshi) — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Korean: 신문지 (sinmunji) — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Latvian: avīžpapīrs — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Latvian: avīze — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Lithuanian: laikraštinis popierius — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Maltese: gazzetta — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Norwegian: avispapir — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Persian: کاغذ روزنامه (kâġaz-e ruznâme) — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Polish: gazeta — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Polish: gazetówka — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Portuguese: papel de periódico — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Portuguese: papel-jornal — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Russian: газе́тная бума́га (gazétnaja bumága) — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Scottish Gaelic: pàipear-naidheachd — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Serbo-Croatian: novine — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Slovak: novinový papier — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Spanish: papel de periódico — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Swahili: gazeti — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Swedish: tidningspapper — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Tagalog: dyariyo — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Tagalog: pahayagan — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Tamil: செய்தித்தாள் (ceytittāḷ) — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Tamil: நாளேடு (nāḷēṭu) — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Thai: หนังสือพิมพ์ (nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ-pim) — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Turkish: gazete kağıdı — paper on which newspapers are printed
  • Zazaki: qağıtê qezeti — paper on which newspapers are printed
Real reading context

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