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zine

/ziːn/

zine noun: a low-circulation, noncommercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.

Noun

zine (plural zines)

  1. A low-circulation, noncommercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.
    • Zines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to the academy. The most compelling zines fused the two.2005, Kim Cooper, “Mimeos and Cut-Out Bins”, in David Smay, editor, Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, Routledge, →ISBN
    • The feminist zine community is not located in place but it geographically dispersed, constituting a connected flow of communicative practices, spaces, texts, technologies, bodies, and utterances.2008, Samantha Holland, Remote Relationships in a Small World, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 21

zine meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

zine in Tamil

துத்தநாகம்

zine in Indonesian

publication
zine

Examples of zine in a sentence

  • I conducted a content analysis of the zines I collected by using techniques of thematic analysis (Patton, 1990).2013, Barbara J. Guzzetti, Thomas W. Bean, Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self: (Re)Constructing Identities through Multimodal...
  • Do you think he'll sign my zine?” “♪♪ Bum, bada-dum. ♪♪ My P.I.2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (5:35 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 8...

All 21 example sentences with zine

Forms of zine

pluralzines
alternative form'zine

Plural of zine: zines

Origin of zine

Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965.

Words formed from zine

Words that rhyme with zine

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Questions about zine

What does zine mean?
Zine means a low-circulation, noncommercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.
What is zine in Tamil?
Zine in Tamil is துத்தநாகம். See Zine meaning in Tamil.
How do you use zine in a sentence?
I conducted a content analysis of the zines I collected by using techniques of thematic analysis (Patton, 1990).
What part of speech is zine?
Zine is a noun.
How do you pronounce zine?
Zine is pronounced /ziːn/.
What is the plural of zine?
The plural of zine is zines.

Words near zine in the dictionary

  1. zindiks
  2. zindiq
  3. zindiqs
  4. zindotrine
  5. zindoxifene
  6. zine
  7. zineb
  8. zinebs
  9. Zinedine
  10. Zinedines
  11. zinefan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zine (page history and authors); zine (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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