Tra từ magazine - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

maga·zine [magazine magazines] BrE [ˌmæɡəˈziːn] NAmE [ˈmæɡəziːn] noun
1. (also informal mag BrE [mæɡ] ; NAmE [mæɡ] )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
•an online magazine
• 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

Word Origin:
late 16th cent.: from French magasin, from Italian magazzino, from Arabic mak̲zin, mak̲zan ‘storehouse’, from k̲azana ‘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.

Culture:
magazines
In Britain and the US there are thousands of weekly and monthly magazines, many of them aimed at particular groups of readers such as teenage girls, new parents, people interested in gardening or professional groups such as doctors. Among the best-sellers are the television guides, such as ↑Radio Times and the ↑TV Guide in the US. Nearly as popular in both countries is the ↑Reader's Digest, a collection of articles and short stories. Some magazines have a smaller readership but are considered important because they are respected and have a role in forming opinion. In the US there are several widely-read news magazines such as Time, ↑Newsweek and ↑US News and World Report and in Britain ↑Economist, ↑New Statesman and ↑Spectator are read for their political comment. The British satirical magazine ↑Private Eye is very popular. Literary magazines include ↑Times Literary Supplement, ↑London Review of Books and ↑Granta in Britain and ↑New York Review of Books in the US.
There are magazines with a restricted circulation (= available only to certain people) such as in-flight magazines published by airlines for people to read during a flight, and store magazines which customers can buy at a supermarket checkout. Special-interest ↑clubs and societies publish magazines for their members.
General-interest magazines include titles such as ↑Vanity Fair and ↑Harper's Magazine, magazines about fashion, of which the most famous is Vogue, the home, gardens, food and family life. There are also magazines on ↑DIY, cars, sport, travel, films and music. ↑Rolling Stone, Billboard and ↑New Musical Express are popular music magazines and Sight and Sound and Empire are specialist film magazines.
In Britain some football clubs produce a club magazine. Fanzines are cheap magazines produced by fans (= supporters) of a singer, group or sports club. Gossip magazines, also called the gossips, have stories about the rich and famous and these include Hello!, Heat and ↑National Enquirer which is sold in US supermarkets.
Some magazines are bought mainly for their listings, e.g. Time Out, which gives details of plays, concerts, etc. in London or New York. Exchange & Mart contains only advertisements of items for sale or wanted.
More specialist magazines include ↑New Scientist, ↑Scientific American, Nature and ↑Lancet.
Traditionally there were more magazines for women than for men but there are now several fashion magazines for men such as ↑Esquire, ↑GQ and Loaded. Vogue and ↑Harper's Bazaar are expensive, high-quality fashion magazines for women. Other women’s magazines have a more chatty style and contain stories, competitions, articles on fashion, make-up, food and fitness, and an agony (AmE advice) column (= replies to readers’ letters on personal problems). One of the most popular magazines is Cosmopolitan, which also includes film and book reviews and advice on sex and careers. Other women’s titles include ↑Good Housekeeping, She and ↑Elle.
Magazines can be bought in supermarkets and bookshops, at bookstalls and news stands, and in Britain at a newsagent’s. Some people take out a subscription (= make a yearly payment) to a magazine and have it sent by mail because it is cheaper.
Many people do not buy magazines but read back copies (= old issues) put out in their doctor’s or dentist’s waiting room or at the hairdresser’s. Libraries have a periodicals section containing ↑newspapers and a selection of more serious magazines which people can read in the library.
Many magazines are also available on the Internet and some, especially academic journals, are available only on the Internet.

Thesaurus:
magazine noun C
•designer clothes from the pages of a glossy magazine
journal • • supplement • • weekly • • comic • • fanzine • • periodical • • monthly • • quarterly • |informal mag •
in a magazine/journal/supplement/weekly/comic/fanzine/periodical/monthly/quarterly/mag
a weekly/monthly magazine/journal/supplement/comic/periodical
publish a magazine/journal/supplement/weekly/comic/fanzine/periodical/monthly/quarterly/mag

Example Bank:
•Check a listings magazine for what's on this weekend.
•I leafed through some magazines in the waiting room.
•I never read magazines.
•Launching a magazine is a risky venture.
•She hit him with a rolled-up magazine.
•The hotel is regularly the location for glossy magazine shoots,
•The magazine carried an interview with the actor considered Hollywood's hottest property.
•The magazine claimed that he was having an affair.
•The magazine comes out once a month.
•The magazine hits the newsstands this week.
•The magazine lists the latest films showing in cinemas.
•Which magazines do you get regularly?
•Why did you buy three copies of the same magazine?
•a company that publishes fashion magazines
•a magazine aimed at mothers with young children
•a magazine devoted to country life
•a trade magazine covering the furnishings industry
•an article in a women's magazine
•the company's in-house magazine
•the magazine section at the bookstore
•He was criticized for comments he made in a magazine interview.
•Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy magazine.