periodical

Definition

Examples

The library keeps many business periodicals in the reading room on the second floor.

Word Family

Synonyms

• magazinea periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it
• journala daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations
• publicationa copy of a printed work offered for distribution

Collocations

• Easy read a monthly periodical
  to look at and comprehend written text regarding a monthly periodical
• Medium subscribe to trade periodicals
  to subscribe to trade periodicals, meaning to offer to buy, as of stocks and shares
• Hard scholarly periodical indexed in citations
  describing scholarly periodical indexed in citations (characteristic of scholars or scholarship)
• Very Hard bound volumes of historical periodicals
  to bound volumes of historical periodicals, meaning to move forward by leaps and bounds