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journal

Syllables: jour·nal/ˈd͡ʒɜːnəl/US/ˈd͡ʒɝnəl/

journal noun: a diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.

Noun (1)

journal (plural journals)

  1. A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
    Synonyms:
    daybook, diary
  2. A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.
    • The university's biology department subscribes to half a dozen academic journals.
  3. A chronological record of payments or receipts.
  4. A general journal.
  5. A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.

Verb (1)

journal (third-person singular simple present journals, present participle (US) journaling or (UK) journalling, simple past and past participle (US) journaled or (UK) journalled)

  1. (transitive) To archive or record something.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To scrapbook.
    • Coffee shops-cum-meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank). Caffeine-fuelled, lactose-intolerant, macadamia milk latte-drinking young folk are journalling, manifesting, coding, ChatGPT-ing and pitching their ideas.2023 February 5, Kathryn Parsons, “Boom times are back in San Francisco’s tech mecca”, in The Sunday Times, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2026

Adjective

journal (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Daily.
    • […]his faint ſteedes watred in Ocean deepe, / Whiles from their iournall labours they did reſt[…].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 163

Noun (2)

journal (plural journaux)

  1. The amount of land that can be worked in a day.
    • Yet the whole extent of cultured country, or all the fields actually cultivated for the ſupport of the inhabitants, will hardly exceed two millions of journaux (or day’s work); above three millions lie entirely waſte; and 850,000 journaux are covered with ſand.1781, “Dictionaire Historique et Géographique de la Province de Bretagne; dédié à la Nation Bretonne; par M. Ogée, Ingenieur-Géographe de cette Province. […]”, in The Critical Review: or, Annals of...
    • The extent of these “Métairies” varies according to the number of the family of the métayer, and the nature of the soil, from 65 journaux (52 statute acres) to 30 journaux (24 acres), for the métayer generally endeavours to cultivate the land he holds, without the help of hired servants or...1836, Report, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, page 46

Noun (3)

journal (plural journals)

  1. the part of a rotating shaft or axle that rests on the bearing

Verb (2)

journal (third-person singular simple present journals, present participle (US) journaling or (UK) journalling, simple past and past participle (US) journaled or (UK) journalled)

  1. (transitive) To insert (a shaft, an axle, etc.) into a journal bearing.
    • In a harvester binder having a hollow shaft journalled at right angles to the main axle and driving motion from the main driving wheel, a spindle journalled within the hollow shaft and having the needle attached to one of its ends[…]1883, The Canadian Magazine of Science and the Industrial Arts, Patent Office Record, page 244
    • The cranks are placed upon posts, rafts, or boats in the stream, and journalled at the water-line, thus keeping one-half of the paddle-surface in action, while the common floating-wheel, or current-wheel, only keeps one[…]1884, John Michels, Science, page 606

journal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

journal in Hindi

diary or daily record
पत्रिका patrikā
newspaper or magazine
पत्रिका patrikā

journal in Tamil

இதழ், சஞ்சிகை, பத்திரிக்கை, பனுவல், ஆய்விதழ், நாட்குறிப்பு

journal in Marathi

diary or daily record
दैनंदिनी dainandinī
newspaper or magazine
पत्रिका patrikā
computing: chronological record of changes
जर्नल jarnal

journal in Urdu

newspaper or magazine
جریدہ jarida
More languagesFewer languages
journal in Bengali
সাময়িক পত্রিকা, দিনপত্রিকা, দৈনন্দিন জমাখরচের খাতা, দৈনিক সংবাদপত্র
journal in Telugu
జర్నల్
journal in Malayalam
ആനുകാലിക പ്രസിദ്ധീകരണം, വാർത്താപത്രിക
journal in Kannada
ದಿನಪತ್ರಿಕೆ dinapatrike
journal in Punjabi
ਪੱਤਰਿਕਾ, ਜਰਨਲ
journal in Gujarati
જર્નલ
journal in Odia
ପତ୍ରିକା, ଜର୍ଣ୍ଣାଲ
journal in Nepali
जर्नल, पत्रिका
journal in Tagalog
diyornal, talaarawan
journal in Malay
jurnal, makalah
journal in Indonesian
jurnal
journal in Persian
ژورنال žurnâl
journal in Thai
อนุทิน à-nú-tin, วารสาร waa-rá-sǎan
journal in Vietnamese
nhật ký, nhật trình, nhật báo

Examples of journal in a sentence

  • The worst three hectolitres (1 quarter per four-fifths of an acre,) or one journal.1836, Report, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, page 46:
  • Now, a journal (0·33 hectares) of sand planted with pines, gives an annual return of 15 livres, that of 337,000 journaux would therefore be of 5,055,000 livres.1855, “Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of a Tour in the North of Italy. By George Edmund Street, […].”, in The Civil Engineer...

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Synonyms of journal

Forms of journal

Noun
pluraljournals
pluraljournaux
alternative form (obsolete)journall
Verb
third-person singular presentjournals
present participle USjournaling
present participle UKjournalling
past participle USjournaled
past USjournaled
past participle UKjournalled
past UKjournalled

Plural of journal: journals

Origin of journal

From Middle English journal, from Anglo-Norman jurnal (“daily”), from Old French jornel (“day”) (whence modern French journal), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”). Doublet of diurnal and the journal from French.

From French journal. Doublet of diurnal and the journal from Middle English.

Unknown, apparently of Scots origin. Perhaps from chirnel, from English kernel (“lump in the flesh”), owing to resemblance in shape.

Words formed from journal

Phrases with journal

Words that rhyme with journal

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Questions about journal

What does journal mean?
Journal means a diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
What is journal in Hindi?
Journal in Hindi is पत्रिका (patrikā). See Journal meaning in Hindi.
How do you use journal in a sentence?
The worst three hectolitres (1 quarter per four-fifths of an acre,) or one journal.
What part of speech is journal?
Journal can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce journal?
Journal is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɝnəl/ (US).
What is the plural of journal?
The plural of journal is journals.

Words near journal in the dictionary

  1. jouravskite
  2. Jourdaine
  3. Jourdan
  4. Jourdans
  5. Jourdanton
  6. journal
  7. journal bearing
  8. journal bearings
  9. journal box
  10. journal boxes
  11. journal tape

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: journal (page history and authors); journal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); journal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); journal (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); journal (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ದಿನಪತ್ರಿಕೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); journal (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); journal (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); journal (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); journal (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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