zine

noun

ˈzēn 

: magazine

especially : a noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter

a feminist zine

Synonyms

• book
• bulletin
• diurnal
• gazette
• journal
• mag
• magazine
• newspaper
• organ
• paper
• periodical
• rag
• review
• serial

Examples of zine in a Sentence

a small cadre of students have taken to producing their own underground zine in order to satirize many of the university's most sacred cows

Recent Examples on the Web

The data hoarders collect zines, manuals, family photos, old television shows, and defunct websites—just about everything digital or digitizable at risk of disappearance. —Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2025

The archive includes drawings, notes, concert flyers, prints, zines, skateboards, a surfboard, and other materials. —The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 14 Mar. 2025

Tracing back trans figures from ancient Greek mythology to the pioneers of the Stonewall Uprising, this zine is chock full of informational illustrations and blurbs. —Evelyn Bauer, Them, 26 Nov. 2024

Proxima Kosmos launched Saturday featuring a sweeping interactive digital platform, films and a limited-run zine that expands the speculative universe through essays, art and storytelling. —Leslie Katz, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025

Word History

Etymology

-zine (as in fanzine)

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing zine

• e-zine

Rhymes for zine

• brine
• cline
• dine
• fein
• fine
• gwine
• hine
• jain
• klein
• kline
• line
• mine