zine
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ziːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -iːn
Noun
zine (plural zines)
- A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.
- 2005, Kim Cooper, “Mimeos and Cut-Out Bins”, in David Smay, editor, Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Zines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to the academy. The most compelling zines fused the two.
- 2008, Samantha Holland, Remote Relationships in a Small World, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 21:
- The feminist zine community is not located in place but it geographically dispersed, constituting a connected flow of communicative practices, spaces, texts, technologies, bodies, and utterances.
- 2013, Barbara J. Guzzetti, Thomas W. Bean, Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self: (Re)Constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices, Routledge, →ISBN, page 58:
- I conducted a content analysis of the zines I collected by using techniques of thematic analysis (Patton, 1990). I read and reread each of the zines’ contents. I annotated the prose, cartoons, poetry, and narratives in the zines by noting key words that signaled topics and assigning codes and subcodes that were later collapsed to form categories.
- 2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (5:35 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows[1], season 6, episode 8, spoken by Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén):
- “Do you think Cal Bodian's over there? Do you think he'll sign my zine?” “♪♪ Bum, bada-dum. ♪♪ My P.I. Undercover fanzine. I've done everything myself. I just took a guess about the chest hair.”
Derived terms
Translations
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “zine”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
Latgalian
Etymology
Related to the verb zynuot; compare Lithuanian žinia, Latvian ziņa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zʲinʲæ/
Noun
zine f
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
zine (Cyrillic spelling зине)
- third-person singular present of zinuti
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English zine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθin/ [ˈθĩn] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /ˈsin/ [ˈsĩn] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -in
Noun
zine m (plural zines)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.