newspaper clipping
Definition
Noun: A small piece cut or torn from a newspaper or magazine, typically containing a specific article, picture, or piece of information that someone wants to keep.
Examples of Usage
- She keeps a newspaper clipping about her grandfather's military service in a special album.
- The researcher organized the newspaper clippings by date and topic for her project.
- I found an old newspaper clipping about the town's founding stuck inside the book.
Advanced Usage
- "to be featured in a newspaper clipping": to be the subject of an article that is then cut out and saved.
- His first published poem was featured in a newspaper clipping his mother saved for decades.
- "a yellowed newspaper clipping": describes an old clipping that has changed color with age, emphasizing its age and historical nature.
- The family history was pieced together from a collection of yellowed newspaper clippings.
Variants and Related Words
- Clipping (n): A more general term for something cut out from a publication; often used interchangeably with "newspaper clipping."
- She saved the clipping about the new park.
- Press clipping (n): A synonym, often used in more formal or professional contexts.
- The public relations firm monitors and collects press clippings for their clients.
- Cutting (n): A British English synonym for "clipping."
- He keeps a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings about his favorite football team.
Synonyms
- Article excerpt: A piece taken from a longer article.
- Press cutting: (See Variants above).
- Clipped article: Emphasizes the action of cutting.
Related Phrases
- To clip (something) from the paper: The action of cutting out the article.
- She clipped the recipe from the Sunday magazine.
- Scrapbook of clippings: A book for collecting and pasting clippings.
- Her scrapbook of clippings documented the entire election.
Noun
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an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
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he searched through piles of letters and clippings
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