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Definition: Newsstand |
NewsstandNoun1. A stall where newspapers and other periodicals are sold. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "newsstand" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Mart | Stall, booth, stand, newsstand; cart, wagon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Newsstand |
| English words defined with "newsstand": newsstand operator. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Periodicals |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Magazines at newsstand, Saint Louis, Missouri.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Newsstand, Manchester, New Hampshire.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mexican newsstand, San Antonio, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Newsstand on South Broad Street.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | McArthur Advertising Corporation, 2480 16th Street. Allegheny Ludlum Steel display above Union News Company newsstand.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Azerbaijan | Private advertisers were intimidated and harassed into removing their advertisements from some independent and opposition newspapers, forcing many newspapers to subsist on newsstand sales alone and adding to the financial pressures on newspapers that do not benefit from government financial support. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Newsstand" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Newsstand" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "newsstand": newsstand operator. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
newsstand | 54 |
navy newsstand | 18 |
ecola newsstand | 7 |
arabic newsstand | 6 |
magazine newsstand | 5 |
newsstand special | 4 |
baseball newsstand | 4 |
newsstand playboy special | 3 |
network.com newsstand | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "newsstand"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qoshk librash (bookstall), qoshk gazetash. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вестникарска будка (kiosk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 报摊, " . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | novinový stánek (news stand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kiosk (kiosk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | روزنامه فروشی , دکه روزنامه فروشی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | kiosque (news paper kiosk, news stand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zeitungskiosk (bookstall, news stall, news stand, newspaper kiosk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περίπτερο όπου πωλούνται εφημερίδεσ και περιοδικά, περίπτερο εφημερίδων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | edicola (bookstall, kiosk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 문 판매 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ewsstandnay folha informativa, banca de revistas, banca de jornais. (various references) газетный киоск. (various references) novinarnica (news stand, newsstall). (various references) quiosco de periódicos y revistas, kiosco (kiosk). (various references) tidningskiosk (book-stall, news agent, newsagent, news-stand). (various references) gazete tezgâhı (newsstall). (various references) газетний кіоск. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "newsstand": newsstands. (additional references) | |
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"Newsstand" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: newstand, Nieswand. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "newsstand" (pronounced nuw"zsta'nd) |
| 5 | -s t a' n d | bandstand, grandstand, handstand, nightstand. |
| 3 | -a' n d | ampersand, armband, backhand, Badland, beforehand, broadband, contraband, cropland, dreamland, fairyland, Fantasyland, farmhand, farmland, Fatherland, firebrand, flatland, forehand, freehand, grassland, headband, heartland, hinterland, homeland, inland, longhand, lowland, mainland, marshland, Midland, moorland, motherland, Northland, outland, overland, parkland, quicksand, reprimand, seastrand, secondhand, shorthand, Southland, spaceband, stagehand, sunland, Timberland, undermanned, wasteland, wetland, Wonderland, woodland. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-n-s-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: swanned, wadsets, wanness, wannest, wessand. | |
-3 letters: anenst, assent, dewans, sanest, sedans, sennas, sewans, snawed, stades, stands, staned, stanes, steads, sweats, tanned, tawsed, tawses, tsades, wadset, wanned, wanted, wasted, wastes. | |
-4 letters: anent, anted, antes, assed, asset, awned, dates, dawen, dawns, dawts, deans, dents, dewan, easts, etnas, nates, neats, nests, newts, sades, sands, saned, sanes, sated, sates, sawed, seats, sedan, sends, senna, sensa, sewan, snaws, sneds, stade, stand, stane, stead, stews, swans, swats, sweat, tasse, tawed, tawse, tends, tsade, twaes, wades, wands, waned, wanes, wants, waste, wasts, weans, wends, wests. | |
-5 letters: ands, anes, anew, ante, ants, ates, awed, awes, awns, date, dawn, daws, dawt, dean, dens, dent, dews, east, eats, ends, etas, etna, nans, neat, ness, nest, nets, news, newt, sade, sand, sane, sans, sate, sawn, saws, seas, seat, send, sent, seta, sets, sewn, sews, snaw, sned, staw, stew, swan, swat, tads, tans, tass, taws, teas, teds, tend, tens, tews, twae, twas, wade, wads, waes, wand, wane, wans, want, wast, wats, wean, weds, wend, wens, went, west, wets. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-n-s-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: newsstands. | |
+3 letters: untowardness. | |
+4 letters: withdrawnness. | |
+5 letters: untowardnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 77 73 73 74 61 6E 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . .--. ... ... - .- -. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110111 01110011 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e w s s t a n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0077 0073 0073 0074 0061 006E 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)487189858586678070 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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