newsagent

noun

newsagent is a noun meaning “A retail business selling newspapers, magazines, and stationery; a stationer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-W-S-A-G-E-N-T, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of newsagent is newsagents.

What does newsagent mean?

noun

1
A retail business selling newspapers, magazines, and stationery; a stationer.
2
The proprietor of such a business.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce newsagent?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-newsagent.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of newsagent

newsagents plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is newsagent?

Newsagent appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 76,798th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Newsagent in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	kiosque à journaux (retail business), marchand de journaux (person)
German	Zeitungskiosk (retail business), Zeitungsverkäufer, Zeitungshändler (person)
Portuguese	banca de jornal (retail business)
Spanish	estanco (retail business)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does newsagent come from?

From news + agent.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).