fanmag
/ˈfæn.mæɡ/
fanmag noun: magazine produced by amateurs for readers with a specific shared interest.
Noun
fanmag (plural fanmags)
- Magazine produced by amateurs for readers with a specific shared interest.
- LeZ plans, in the future, to print these Cullings regularly, from foreign fanmags, or American mags of small circulation, in the belief that you might otherwise not see the material.1940 April, Wilson "Bob" Tucker, “Cullings”, in Le Zombie, number 27, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2013, page 3
- Arthur Widner Jr., editor of the Strangers Club's FANFARE, is plugging the word "fanzines" to take the place of the Philadelphian's "fanag" and the usual "fanmag". Incidentally, FANFARE is the neatest, most legible, and cleanest of any hectographed fanzine I have yet seen. In two colors too, into...1941 March, Leslie A. Croutch, “Clippings from Canada”, in Futurian War Digest, volume 1, number 6, page 4
- Synonyms:
- fanzine
Examples of fanmag in a sentence
- Arthur Widner Jr., editor of the Strangers Club's FANFARE, is plugging the word "fanzines" to take the place of the Philadelphian's "fanag" and the usual "fanmag".1941 March, Leslie A. Croutch, “Clippings from Canada”, in Futurian War Digest, volume 1, number 6, page 4:
- The first issue of a fanmag from the southern-most post of Australian science fiction is good.1941 April 6, Futurian Observer, number 33, page 1:
- The advertising value of fanzines to promags is negligible, for the simple reason that anyone in sufficient contact with STF to read fanmags knows all about the prozines.1952 November, Algis Budrys, Planet Stories, volume 5, number 9, page 111:
Synonyms of fanmag
Forms of fanmag
| plural | fanmags |
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Origin of fanmag
Blend of fan (“an admirer or aficionado”) + magazine.
Questions about fanmag
- What does fanmag mean?
- Fanmag means magazine produced by amateurs for readers with a specific shared interest.
- How do you use fanmag in a sentence?
- Arthur Widner Jr., editor of the Strangers Club's FANFARE, is plugging the word "fanzines" to take the place of the Philadelphian's "fanag" and the usual "fanmag".
- What part of speech is fanmag?
- Fanmag is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fanmag?
- Fanmag is pronounced /ˈfæn.mæɡ/.
- What is the plural of fanmag?
- The plural of fanmag is fanmags.
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