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newspaper (n.)

"a sheet containing intelligence or reports of passing events, issued at short but regular intervals," 1660s, newes paper, though the thing itself is older (see gazette); from news (n.) + paper (n.).

[T]he newspaper that drops on your doorstep is a partial, hasty, incomplete, inevitably somewhat flawed and inaccurate rendering of some of the things we have heard about in the past twenty-four hours — distorted, despite our best efforts to eliminate gross bias, by the very process of compression that makes it possible for you to lift it from the doorstep and read it in about an hour. If we labeled the product accurately, then we could immediately add: But it's the best we could do under the circumstances, and we will be back tomorrow with a corrected and updated version. [David Broder, Pulitzer Prize acceptance speech, 1973]

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Definitions of newspaper from WordNet

newspaper (n.)
a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements;
he read his newspaper at breakfast
Synonyms: paper
newspaper (n.)
a business firm that publishes newspapers;
Murdoch owns many newspapers
Synonyms: paper / newspaper publisher
newspaper (n.)
the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher;
when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper
Synonyms: paper
newspaper (n.)
cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers;
they used bales of newspaper every day
Synonyms: newsprint
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