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newsprint

newsprint noun: an inexpensive paper used for printing newspapers.

Noun

newsprint (countable and uncountable, plural newsprints)

  1. An inexpensive paper used for printing newspapers.
    • The journalism trade publication Editor and Publisher announced in the spring of 1954 that more newsprint had been generated about Jorgensen during the previous year than about any other individual—over a million and a half words, the rough equivalent of fifteen full-length books.2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 73

newsprint meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Vietnamese

newsprint in Tamil

இதழ் அச்சிடும் தாள்

newsprint in Urdu

newsprint
اخباری کاغذ aḵbāri kāġaz

newsprint in Kannada

ವೃತ್ತಪತ್ರಿಕೆ ಕಾಗದ, ವೃತ್ತಪತ್ರಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಮುದ್ರಿಸುವ ಕಾಗದ, ಕಡಿಮೆ ಬೆಲೆಯ ಕಾಗದ

newsprint in Vietnamese

inexpensive paper used in newspapers
giấy in báo
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newsprint in Myanmar
သတင်းစာစက္ကူ sa.tang:cacakku

Forms of newsprint

pluralnewsprints

Origin of newsprint

From news + print.

Questions about newsprint

What does newsprint mean?
Newsprint means an inexpensive paper used for printing newspapers.
What is newsprint in Tamil?
Newsprint in Tamil is இதழ் அச்சிடும் தாள். See Newsprint meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is newsprint?
Newsprint is a noun.
What is the plural of newsprint?
The plural of newsprint is newsprints.

Words near newsprint in the dictionary

  1. newspersons
  2. newsplan
  3. newsplans
  4. newspost
  5. newsposts
  6. newsprint
  7. newsprints
  8. NewSQL
  9. newsreader
  10. newsreaderess
  11. newsreaders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: newsprint (page history and authors); newsprint (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اخباری کاغذ (Urdu) (page history and authors); newsprint (Kannada 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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