newspaper

English

Etymology

From news +‎ paper.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnjuːsˌpeɪpə/, /ˈnjuːzˌpeɪpə/
Audio (Southern England); /ˈnjuːsˌpeɪpə/: (file)
(General American, Canada) enPR: n(y)o͞os'pāpər, n(y)o͞oz'pāpər, IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)usˌpeɪpɚ/, /ˈn(j)uzˌpeɪpɚ/
Audio (US); /ˈnuzˌpeɪpɚ/: (file)
Hyphenation: news‧pa‧per

Noun

newspaper (countable and uncountable, plural newspapers)

(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, (Australia) masthead
- 1922, P. B. M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home‎^[1], 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: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
  ‘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?
(uncountable, countable) A quantity of or one of the types of paper on which newspapers are printed.
Synonym: newsprint

Derived terms

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) (tʻertʻ)
Assamese: বাতৰি (batori)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܦܵܪܝܵܘܡܵܐ m (spāryāwmā)
Asturian: periódicu m, papel (ast) m
Aukan: kolanti
Azerbaijani: qəzet (az)
Bashkir: гәзит (gəzit)
Basque: egunkari
Belarusian: газе́та f (hazjéta), газэ́та f (hazéta) (Taraškievica)
Bengali: সংবাদপত্র (bn) (śoṅbadpotro) পত্রিকা (bn) (potrika), আখবার (bn) (akhbar)
Breton: kazetenn (br) f
Bulgarian: ве́стник (bg) m (véstnik)
Burmese: သတင်းစာ (my) (sa.tang:ca)
Buryat: һонин (honin)
Carpathian Rusyn: нови́ны f pl (novýnŷ)
Catalan: jornal (ca) m, 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)

Eastern Min: 報紙 / 报纸 (bó̤-cāi)

Hakka: 報紙 / 报纸 (po-chṳ́), 新聞紙 / 新闻纸 (sîn-vùn-chṳ́)

Hokkien: 報紙 / 报纸 (zh-min-nan) (pò-chóa), 新聞 / 新闻 (zh-min-nan) (sin-bûn), 新聞紙 / 新闻纸 (sin-bûn-chóa)

Jin: 報紙 / 报纸 (bau³ zi²)

Mandarin: 報紙 / 报纸 (zh) (bàozhǐ), 報 / 报 (zh) (bào), 報章 / 报章 (zh) (bàozhāng)

Wu: 報紙 / 报纸
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: courant (nl) f, dagblad (nl) n, gazet (nl) f, krant (nl) f, nieuwsblad (nl) n
Elfdalian: tiningg f
Erzya: куляконёв (kuľakońov), газета (gaźeta)
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:
Adlam: ^{(please verify)} 𞤳𞤭𞤦𞤭𞤪𞤣𞤭, ^{(please verify)} 𞤧𞤵𞤪𞤲𞤢

Latin: ^{(please verify)} kibirdi, ^{(please verify)} surnal
Galician: xornal (gl) m
Georgian: გაზეთი (ka) (gazeti)
German: Zeitung (de) f
Greek: εφημερίδα (el) f (efimerída)
Greenlandic: aviisi
Guaraní: kuatiahaipyre
Gujarati: અખબાર (gu) m or n (akhabār), સમાચારપત્ર n (samācārpatra), વર્તમાનપત્ર (vartamānpatra), છાપું (gu) n (chāpũ)
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), जरीदा (hi) m (jarīdā)
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)
Kashubian: cajtung m, gazéta f
Kazakh: газет (gazet), үнжария (ünjariä)
Khmer: កាសែត (km) (kaasaet), សារពត៌មាន (saapɔədɑɑmiən)
Korean: 신문(新聞) (ko) (sinmun)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ڕۆژنامە (ckb) (rojname)

Northern Kurdish: rojname (ku) f, nûçename (ku) f
Kyrgyz: гезит (ky) (gezit), күнчө (ky) (küncö)
Lao: ໜັງສືພິມ (nang sư̄ phim)
Latin: acta diurna n pl, acta (la) n pl, diurnum n
Latvian: avīze (lv) f, laikraksts (lv) m
Lingala: nkasa ya nsango
Lithuanian: laikraštis (lt) m
Lü: ᦐᧂᦉᦹᦘᦲᧄ (ṅangṡuephiim)
Luganda: olupapula lwa mawulire
Luxembourgish: Zeitung (lb) f
Macedonian: весник m (vesnik)
Malagasy: gazety (mg)
Malay: akhbar (ms), surat khabar (ms)
Malayalam: ദിനപത്രം (ml) (dinapatraṁ)
Maltese: gazzetta (mt) f, ġurnal m
Maori: nūpepa
Marathi: वर्तमानपत्र n (vartamānpatra), वृत्तपत्र n (vŕttapatra)
Moksha: газета (gaźeta)
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
Odia: ସମ୍ବାଦପତ୍ର (sambādapatra), ଖବରକାଗଜ (or) (khabarakāgaja)
Okinawan: かみはぶ (kamihabu)
Oromo: gaazexaa
Ossetian: газет (gazet)
Ottoman Turkish: غزته (gazeta, gazete), روزنامه (ruzname), جریده (cerîde)
Pannonian Rusyn: новини f pl (novini)
Pashto: ورځپاڼه (ps) (wrajpāṇa), جريده (ps) (jarida), روزنامه (roznāma), اخبار (ps) m pl (axbār), ژورنال (žurnāl)
Persian:
Classical Persian: روزْنَامَه (rōznāma), جَرِیدَه (jarīda)

Dari: روزْنَامَه (rōznāma), جَرِیدَه (jarīda), اَخْبَار (axbār)

Iranian Persian: روزْنامِه (ruznâme), جَریدِه (jaride), اَخْبار (axbâr)
Plautdietsch: Zeitunk f
Pohnpeian: simpung
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)
Santali: ᱵᱮᱣᱨᱟ ᱥᱟᱠᱟᱢ (bevra sakam), ᱠᱷᱚᱵᱚᱨ ᱠᱟᱜᱚᱡᱽ
Scottish Gaelic: pàipear-naidheachd m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: но̀вине f pl

Roman: nòvine (sh) f pl
Silesian: cajtůng m
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, gaceta (es) f
Sranan Tongo: koranti
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), ҷарида (jarida) (literary)
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 (gazyeta)
Turkish: gazete (tr), günce (tr), gaste (tr) (colloquial), yenün, ceride (tr), ruzname (tr)
Turkmen: gazet
Udmurt: газета (gaźeta), газет (gaźet)
Ukrainian: газе́та (uk) f (hazéta)
Urdu: اَخْبار m (axbār), روزْنامَہ m (roznāma), سَماچار پَتْر m (samācār patr), جَرِیدَہ m (jarīda)
Uyghur: گېزىت (gëzit)
Uzbek: roʻznoma (uz), gazeta (uz), jarida (uz) (dated)
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 (xbr)
Yakut: хаһыат (qahıat)
Yiddish: צײַטונג f (tsaytung)
Yoruba: ìwé ìròyìn
Zazaki: qezeta (diq) m rocdek c
Zhuang: bauqceij

paper on which newspapers are printed

Afrikaans: koerantpapier
Armenian: թերթ (hy) (tʻertʻ)
Bengali: খবরের কাগজ (bn) (khoborer kagoj)
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 (kâğaz-e ruznâme)
Polish: gazeta (pl) f, gazetówka f
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)

Verb

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

(transitive) To cover with newspaper.
She newspapered one end of the room before painting the bookcase.
(intransitive, transitive) To engage in the business of journalism
His newspapered his way through the South on the sports beat, avoiding dry towns.
(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.