/ ˌmægəˈziːn; NAmE ˈmægəziːn/ noun
1.
(also informal mag / mæg; NAmE /) 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 weekly / monthly magazine
a magazine article / interview
Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine.
2.
a radio or television programme that is about a particular topic :
a regional news magazine on TV
a magazine programme / program
3.
the part of a gun that holds the bullets before they are fired
4.
a room or building where weapons, explosives and bullets are stored
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WORD ORIGIN
late 16th cent.: from French magasin , from Italian magazzino , from Arabic maḵzin , maḵzan storehouse, from ḵazana store up. The term originally meant store and was often used from the mid 17th cent. in the title of books providing information useful to particular groups of people, whence senses 1 and 2 (mid 18th cent.). Sense 4, a contemporary specialization of the original meaning, gave rise to sense 3 in the mid 18th cent.