Newspaperland
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The subculture of people who write and publish newspapers. uncountable
"In most ordinary trades goods are bought and sold by weight or measure or quantity, and a customer knows just how much he will get for his pound sterling; but in the glorious realm of newspaperland, where every editor is qualified to tell the Prime Minister what to do in every emergency, nothing so vulgar as accurate quantum for cash paid is allowed."
- 2 The world as depicted in the newspaper or which reads the newspaper. uncountable
"The author is, of course, well aware that much is untouched in this book, even in the provinces of newspaperland, of London's foreign visitors and of its old shops, hotels and taverns, subjects to which he had given some particular study."
Example
More examples"In most ordinary trades goods are bought and sold by weight or measure or quantity, and a customer knows just how much he will get for his pound sterling; but in the glorious realm of newspaperland, where every editor is qualified to tell the Prime Minister what to do in every emergency, nothing so vulgar as accurate quantum for cash paid is allowed."
Etymology
From newspaper + -land.
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