news ‧ pa ‧ per S2 W2 /ˈnjuːsˌpeɪpə $ ˈnuːzˌpeɪpər/ BrE AmE noun
1 . [countable] a set of large folded sheets of printed paper containing news, articles, pictures, advertisements etc which is sold daily or weekly SYN paper :
She had read about it in the newspaper.
a series of newspaper articles about life in Cuba
REGISTER
In everyday English, people often say paper rather than newspaper :
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I saw an ad in the paper.
2 . [uncountable] sheets of paper from old newspapers:
Wrap the plates in newspaper to stop them from breaking.
Bella laid the flowers out carefully on a sheet of newspaper.
3 . [countable] a company that produces a newspaper:
He works for a local newspaper.
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COLLOCATIONS
■ verbs
▪ read a newspaper
Which newspaper do you read?
▪ get a newspaper (=buy one regularly)
We don’t get a newspaper; we tend to watch the news on TV.
▪ see/read something in the newspaper
I saw in the newspaper that he had died.
▪ appear in a newspaper
Her photo appeared in all the newspapers.
▪ a newspaper reports something (=has an article on something)
The newspapers reported that the police were treating the death as a suicide.
■ ADJECTIVES/NOUN + newspaper
▪ a national newspaper
The story was in all the national newspapers.
▪ a local newspaper
The store advertises in the local newspaper.
▪ a daily/weekly/Sunday newspaper (=one that is published every day/week/Sunday)
Do you get a daily newspaper?
▪ a tabloid newspaper (=a small-sized newspaper, especially one with not much serious news)
Their wedding made the headlines in all the tabloid newspapers.
▪ a quality newspaper British English (=a newspaper with a lot of serious news and good writing)
The story has not been given as much coverage in the quality newspapers.
■ newspaper + NOUN
▪ a newspaper article/report/story
I read quite an interesting newspaper report on the war.
▪ a newspaper headline
‘Wine is good for you’ announced a recent newspaper headline.
▪ a newspaper column (=a regular article in a newspaper written by a particular journalist)
She writes a regular newspaper column about gardening.
▪ a newspaper clipping/cutting (=a story cut out of a newspaper)
I found some old newspaper cuttings of the band's first concert in Liverpool.
▪ a newspaper reporter
She was fed up with being followed by newspaper reporters.
▪ a newspaper editor
Newspaper editors have a lot of power.
▪ a newspaper proprietor British English (=owner)
Ultimately, it’s the newspaper proprietor who decides what goes into the newspaper.
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THESAURUS
▪ newspaper :
The New York Times is a popular daily newspaper.
▪ paper a newspaper. Paper is more common than newspaper in everyday English:
There was an interesting article in the local paper today.
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the Sunday papers
▪ the press newspapers and news magazines in general, and the people who write for them:
the freedom of the press
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The press are always interested in stories about the royal family.
▪ the media newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and the Internet, considered as a group that provides news and information:
This issue has received a lot of attention in the media.
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Her public image was shaped by the media.
▪ tabloid a newspaper that has small pages, a lot of photographs, short stories, and not much serious news:
The tabloids are full of stories about her and her boyfriend.
▪ broadsheet British English a serious newspaper printed on large sheets of paper, with news about politics, finance, and foreign affairs:
the quality broadsheets
▪ the nationals the newspapers that give news about the whole country where they are printed, in contrast to local newspapers:
The results of the nationwide survey became headlines in the nationals.
▪ the dailies the daily newspapers:
The dailies reported the story.
■ parts of a newspaper
▪ article a piece of writing in a newspaper about a particular subject:
an article on the education reforms
▪ report a piece of writing in a newspaper about an event:
newspaper reports on the war
▪ story a report in a newspaper about an event, especially one that is not very serious or reliable:
You can’t always believe what you read in newspaper stories.
▪ a headline the title of an important newspaper article, printed in large letters above the article. The headlines are the titles of the most important stories on the front page:
The singer’s drug problem has been constantly in the headlines.
▪ front page the page on the front of a newspaper which has the most important news stories:
The story was all over the front page.
▪ section/pages the pages in a newspaper dealing with a particular area of news such as sports, business, or entertainment:
the financial pages of The Times
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the arts section
▪ editorial the page of a newspaper on which the editor of a newspaper and other people express their opinions about the news, rather than just giving facts:
an editorial on the vaccination programme
▪ column an article on a particular subject or by a particular writer that appears regularly:
his weekly column on gardening