Kilo Lingo

/ˈnjuːzpeɪpə/

Line drawing of newspaper
Coloured illustration of newspaper
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Translation

Large folded sheets of paper, printed every day or every week, with reports about what is happening.

Word origin

A compound of news and paper, first used in the 1600s when printed news sheets began to appear.

Origin
English
Root
news + paper
English cognates
news, paper

Grammar

Gender
Pluralnewspapers

Examples

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A newspaper is printed and comes out every day.

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The front page holds the biggest story of the day.

wrapping .

"Newspapers" is the plural of "newspaper".

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