Kilo Lingo

/ˌmæɡəˈziːn/

Line drawing of magazine
Coloured illustration of magazine
#1648 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

A thin book with pictures and stories in it that comes out every week or every month.

Word origin

From French magasin, a storehouse, which came from Arabic makhzan; an early magazine was thought of as a store of writing.

Origin
Arabic
Root
makhzan

Examples

.

"Magazine" is a countable noun, so it takes "a".

magazines .

The plural adds an s: magazines.

.

A magazine has a front cover with a picture on it.

Used in

Add to review queue

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

Go to my review queue

This word is part of lesson 33.