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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

  1. (US) 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 formTime-ese

Origin of Timese

From Time + -ese.

Words that rhyme with Timese

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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

  1. timescaled
  2. timescales
  3. timescaling
  4. timescape
  5. timescapes
  6. Timese
  7. timesed
  8. timeseries
  9. timeserver
  10. timeservers
  11. timeserving

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