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  1. noun A periodical containing a collection of articles, stories, pictures, or other features.
  2. noun A television program that presents a variety of topics, usually on current events, in a format that often includes interviews and commentary.
  3. noun A place where goods are stored, especially a building in a fort or a storeroom on a warship where ammunition is kept.
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  • The first two stories in the magazine were my favorites. —  GotPoetry.com News
  • The Jan. 10th cover of the magazine will be the first issue in the new format, which also features slightly heavier paper stock and a promise to focus less on celebrity covers. —  Queerty
  • ** [I highly recommend Sierra Club membership; the magazine is a great way to stay informed about current issues, plus your membership will go towards things like saving Sequoia National Monument from logging -- a recent victory.] —  Grow Wings -- the Journal of Laini Taylor
  • The images on the website and in the magazine were adored by many, leaving no doubt that this community created work of the highest caliber. —  PSFK
  • We feel honored and humbled to have been able to share photography on the website and in the magazine was adored by many, leaving no doubt that this community created work of the highest caliber.
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  1. French magasin, storehouse, from Old French magazin (possibly via Old Italian magazzino), from Arabic maḫāzin, pl. of maḫzan, from ḫazana, to store, from Aramaic ḥassen, to possess, hoard, derived stem of ḥəsan, to be strong; see ḫsn in Semitic roots.

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  1. = Dutch magazijn = German magazin = Danish Swedish magasin, from Old French F. magazin, now magasin, from Italian magazzino, from Spanish magacen, almagacen, almacen = Portuguese almazem, armazem, a storehouse, from Arabic al, the, + makhāzin (later Turkish makhazin), plural of makhzan, makhzen (later Turkish makhzen), a storehouse, warehouse, cf. khizāna, a storehouse, khazna, khazīna, treasury, khazana, lay up in store; cf. Hebrew khãsan, lay up in store, mishenot, storehouses.
  2. from magazine, n.
 

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