Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An amateur-produced magazine written for a subculture of enthusiasts devoted to a particular interest: a science fiction fanzine.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- fan2 + (maga)zine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word "zine" is a shortened form of the term fanzine, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.”
“Community because another strength of the fanzine is the LOC (letter of comment).”
“In brief, a fanzine is a "for the love" publication, an amateur magazine, where nobody gets paid anything.”
“Often, after an issue of a fanzine is published, someone will write a LOC (letter of comment) weeks or months (or issues) later.”
“A zine an abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine; pronounced /ˈziːn/ "zeen" is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images.”
“Some consider a fanzine a stepping stone toward building a pro career, but a fanzine is really a glorious thing in and of itself.”
“There's a comraderie in fanzine writing, too, that's different than with slicks or pro mags.”
“The word fanzine comes from a blend of two words, 'Fan' and 'Magazine' or 'Zine' for short.”
“I do believe things are evolving, and I maintain that the essence of a fanzine is its content, not it’s form.”
Science Fiction Awards Watch » Blog Archive » Scalzi on Fan Hugos
“This would seem to suggest either that NYRSF (et al) is only eligible in fanzine, or that the editors of any fanzines which produce four or more issues in that year can’t be nominated for Best Fanzine. on 20 Aug 2008 at 9: 10 am4 Kevin”
Science Fiction Awards Watch » Blog Archive » The Semiprozine Motion
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fanzine’.
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Fruits of Linguistic Invention
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Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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Fandom
fanfic, beta, fanboy, fangirl, fanfiction, fanficcer, spoiler, squeeing, shipping, shipper, ship, one true pairing and 130 more...
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a fan's dictionary
fanon, canon, trekkie, trekker, browncoat, shipping, het, slash, femslash, smut, gen, mary sue and 45 more...
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Geek Culture
geek, dork, nerd, gafiate, filk, concom, fanboy, fandom, geekosphere, grok, hacker, leet and 26 more...
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F is for Flea Circus
My F Words
fire engine red, fanboy, fancy pants, fanzine, feeling fist, femme fatale, fiasco, fiddle faddle, fiddlesticks, filibuster, flannel, flea circus and 41 more...
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