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weekly

weekly

71 1.0
A magazine or newspaper published once a week
  • noun
  • /ˈwiːkli/
  • Literature
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  • Listen, I read my Entertainment Weekly, okay?
  • several major weeklies
  • Publishers Weekly
  • Guardian Weekly

She had written a bunch of essays for LA Weekly.

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Examples

  • What's Good is a weekly news show strictly about good news.

  • I got the e-mail from LA Weekly, man!

  • This will be the last episode of our weekly Science News.

  • Welcome back to our little weekly book show.

  • Somebody I know saw your ad in the Weekly and showed it to me.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • I write for The Muse, a weekly that mostly covers the arts.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • The front page of the local weekly, the News Guard, from 1936 flapped at him.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • She also writes the Atlantic's weekly deer therapist advice column.

  • She also writes The Atlantic's weekly Deer Therapist advice column.

  • I enjoy reading my weekly magazine about art and culture every Saturday.

Synonyms

magazine
vsweekly
1.0

A printed or online set of pages that comes out regularly with articles and pictures about a subject

is defined by being issued every seven days regardless of subject focus
periodical
vsweekly
18 3.8

A printed or online magazine that comes out regularly

is limited to publications released every seven days rather than various intervals
wkly
vsweekly
9.9

A magazine or paper published every week

is the full form used for publications issued every seven days

How Often

daily
  • Literature
62 1.0
weekly
  • Literature
71 1.0
monthly
24 1.6
periodical
18 3.8
quarterly
  • Specialized
27 4.0
annual
4 3.2

Surface Forms

weekly singular
weeklies plural

Etymology

Weekly for a magazine comes from the parts week ('seven days') and the ending -ly, so it originally means 'every week'. So a weekly is a newspaper or magazine that comes out once each week.