Timese
UK/taɪˈmiːz/
Timese proper noun: a style of writing found in Time magazine, especially during its early decades, characterized by exaggeration, catchy phrasing, and offbeat word order.
Proper noun
Timese
- A style of writing found in Time magazine, especially during its early decades, characterized by exaggeration, catchy phrasing, and offbeat word order.
- The company's first publication was Time, a new kind of weekly magazine that chronicled the affairs of the world in a stylized prose of inverted nouns and verbs that came to be known as Timese.1989 March 5, “A Magazine Became a Giant”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Feb 2014, page 38
- "Prosy was the first issue of Time on March 3, 1923. Yet to suggest itself as a rational method of communication, of infuriating readers into buying the magazine, was strange inverted Timestyle. It was months before [editor Briton] Hadden's impish contempt for his readers, his impatience with the...1998 March 9, “75 Years Of Miscellany”, in Time, retrieved 30 Dec 2007
Forms of Timese
| alternative form | Time-ese |
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Origin of Timese
From Time + -ese.
Words that rhyme with Timese
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- wheeze
- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
Questions about Timese
- What does Timese mean?
- Timese means a style of writing found in Time magazine, especially during its early decades, characterized by exaggeration, catchy phrasing, and offbeat word order.
- What part of speech is Timese?
- Timese is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Timese?
- Timese is pronounced /taɪˈmiːz/ (UK).
Words near Timese in the dictionary
Source and license
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