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fanzine

Syllables: fan·zine/ˈfænˌziːn/

fanzine noun: a magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest.

Noun

fanzine (plural fanzines)

  1. A magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest.
    • I don't know how many fanzines there've been, but surely no fewer than 500 different items, some running for one issue and some for several dozen.1950 September, Francis Towner Laney, “Syllabus for a Fanzine”, in Spacewarp, number 42, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2019, page 8
    • "Well, long ago," said the Tin Woodsfan, "a fan and I were feuding, and the fan decided to drive me out of fandom. But no one can leave Iz because of the great burning desert called Public Contempt which surrounds this fannish land, and since nobody ever gafiates while still inside the country, he...1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Tin Woodsfan”, in The BNF of Iz, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2013

fanzine meaning in Tamil

fanzine in Tamil

குழுவாரி இதழ்கள்

Examples of fanzine in a sentence

  • One day when I was chopping wood to make paper for my fanzine, he cast his spell, and there I've been until you came along."1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Tin Woodsfan”, in The BNF of Iz, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2013:
  • Maybe a few dozen hours of collective neofans, all reading him fanzine press at once, would cure him of these paternal instincts.1988, Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun, →ISBN, page 9:
  • He always had projects ― he makes videos in his apartment, and he and a friend put out a fanzine — but he was all over the map.1995, Lynn Hirschberg, “What's The Matter With Kids Today?”, in New York Magazine, volume 28, number 23, page 39:
  • The US jazz magazine Coda began in 1958 as a 12-page mimeographed fanzine, put together by its editor and a team of volunteers working for beer and pizza.2013, Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, volume 1, →ISBN, Fanzines, page 227:

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Forms of fanzine

pluralfanzines

Origin of fanzine

Blend of fan + magazine. Coined by American chess player and SF fandom founder Russ Chauvenet in the October 1940 edition of his own science fiction fanzine Detours, to replace the earlier fanmag.

Words formed from fanzine

Questions about fanzine

What does fanzine mean?
Fanzine means a magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest.
What is fanzine in Tamil?
Fanzine in Tamil is குழுவாரி இதழ்கள். See Fanzine meaning in Tamil.
How do you use fanzine in a sentence?
One day when I was chopping wood to make paper for my fanzine, he cast his spell, and there I've been until you came along."
What part of speech is fanzine?
Fanzine is a noun.
How do you pronounce fanzine?
Fanzine is pronounced /ˈfænˌziːn/.
What is the plural of fanzine?
The plural of fanzine is fanzines.

Words near fanzine in the dictionary

  1. fanwriters
  2. fanwriting
  3. fanwritings
  4. Fanxian
  5. FANY
  6. fanzine
  7. fanziner
  8. fanziners
  9. fanzines
  10. fanzone
  11. fanzones

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fanzine (page history and authors); fanzine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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