"zine" meaning in English

See zine in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ziːn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-zine.wav , En-us-zine.oga Forms: zines [plural]
Rhymes: -iːn Etymology: Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965. Head templates: {{en-noun}} zine (plural zines)
  1. A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest. Wikipedia link: zine Categories (topical): Periodicals Synonyms: 'zine Translations (publication): brochure [feminine] (French), зин (zin) [masculine] (Russian), zine [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "etymology_text": "Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "zines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
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          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        },
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          "kind": "other",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Periodicals",
          "orig": "en:Periodicals",
          "parents": [
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            "Mass media",
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Media",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "adzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "apazine"
        },
        {
          "word": "blogzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "clubzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "crudzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "cyberzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "diskzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "ezine"
        },
        {
          "word": "e-zine"
        },
        {
          "word": "fanzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "filmzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "genzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "girlzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "infozine"
        },
        {
          "word": "letterzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "litzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "musiczine"
        },
        {
          "word": "netzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "personalzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "perzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "prozine"
        },
        {
          "word": "punk zine"
        },
        {
          "word": "punkzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "slashzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "stfanzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "stfzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "tapezine"
        },
        {
          "word": "videozine"
        },
        {
          "word": "webzine"
        },
        {
          "word": "zinefan"
        },
        {
          "word": "zinefest"
        },
        {
          "word": "zinelike"
        },
        {
          "word": "zinester"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Kim Cooper, “Mimeos and Cut-Out Bins”, in David Smay, editor, Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, Routledge, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Zines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to the academy. The most compelling zines fused the two.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Samantha Holland, Remote Relationships in a Small World, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 21:",
          "text": "The feminist zine community is not located in place but it geographically dispersed, constituting a connected flow of communicative practices, spaces, texts, technologies, bodies, and utterances.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Barbara J. Guzzetti, Thomas W. Bean, Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self: (Re)Constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices, Routledge, →ISBN, page 58:",
          "text": "I conducted a content analysis of the zines I collected by using techniques of thematic analysis (Patton, 1990). I read and reread each of the zines’ contents. I annotated the prose, cartoons, poetry, and narratives in the zines by noting key words that signaled topics and assigning codes and subcodes that were later collapsed to form categories.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest."
      ],
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "'zine"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "publication",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "brochure"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zin",
          "sense": "publication",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "зин"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "publication",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "zine"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "zine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
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}
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      "word": "adzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "apazine"
    },
    {
      "word": "blogzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "clubzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "crudzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "cyberzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "diskzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "ezine"
    },
    {
      "word": "e-zine"
    },
    {
      "word": "fanzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "filmzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "genzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "girlzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "infozine"
    },
    {
      "word": "letterzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "litzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "musiczine"
    },
    {
      "word": "netzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "personalzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "perzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "prozine"
    },
    {
      "word": "punk zine"
    },
    {
      "word": "punkzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "slashzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "stfanzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "stfzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "tapezine"
    },
    {
      "word": "videozine"
    },
    {
      "word": "webzine"
    },
    {
      "word": "zinefan"
    },
    {
      "word": "zinefest"
    },
    {
      "word": "zinelike"
    },
    {
      "word": "zinester"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965.",
  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Rhymes:English/iːn",
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        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "en:Periodicals"
      ],
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          "ref": "2005, Kim Cooper, “Mimeos and Cut-Out Bins”, in David Smay, editor, Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, Routledge, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Zines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to the academy. The most compelling zines fused the two.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Samantha Holland, Remote Relationships in a Small World, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 21:",
          "text": "The feminist zine community is not located in place but it geographically dispersed, constituting a connected flow of communicative practices, spaces, texts, technologies, bodies, and utterances.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Barbara J. Guzzetti, Thomas W. Bean, Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self: (Re)Constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices, Routledge, →ISBN, page 58:",
          "text": "I conducted a content analysis of the zines I collected by using techniques of thematic analysis (Patton, 1990). I read and reread each of the zines’ contents. I annotated the prose, cartoons, poetry, and narratives in the zines by noting key words that signaled topics and assigning codes and subcodes that were later collapsed to form categories.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest."
      ],
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        "zine"
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ziːn/"
    },
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    {
      "word": "'zine"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "publication",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brochure"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zin",
      "sense": "publication",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "зин"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "publication",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zine"
    }
  ],
  "word": "zine"
}

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