magazine

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
magazine/maɡəˈziːn/

▶noun

• 1 a periodical publication containing articles and illustrations.

  ■ a regular television or radio programme comprising a variety of items.

• 2 a chamber for holding a supply of cartridges to be fed automatically to the breech of a gun.

• 3 a store for arms, ammunition, and explosives.

word history: The term magazine comes from the French word magasin, which derives from an Arabic word meaning ‘storehouse’. In the 16th century magazine in English meant ‘store’; it was often used in the title of books providing information for particular groups of people, giving rise to sense 1. The sense ‘a store for arms’ survives as a specialised use of the original sense, dating from the late 16th century.