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Magazine

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A storehouse or place where things are kept. In older English, it could mean a repository rather than a periodical.

Detailed Definition
Here, Bradstreet uses the older sense of a place of storage: her husband is her “Magazine of earthly store,” meaning the source or repository of her worldly goods and happiness. The word is not the modern magazine people read, but an older literary usage that can surprise modern readers.
Example
Example in poetry:
“My joy, my Magazine of earthly store” uses magazine in its older sense of storehouse or repository; “The magazine of grain stood locked at dusk” shows a literal supply depot; “Her mind, a magazine of songs” makes the noun metaphorical; Students should distinguish this meaning from the later periodical sense, as in a printed magazine
Additional Notes
In the line “My joy, my Magazine of earthly store,” the word has an older storage-related sense that many modern readers may not know.; Found in the poem, A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick employment by Anne Bradstreet
Also Known As
journal periodical publication digest gazine
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