The Times

Fleet Street institution

The Times typically refers to one of several major newspapers, most notably the British daily founded in 1785, or The New York Times.

Context usually clarifies which: I read it in The Times.

British speakers default to the London paper; Americans to the New York one.

The name suggests a publication recording events of the day.

newspaper

broadsheet

Large-format serious newspaper

publication · print · circulation · newsstand · subscription · readership · edition · masthead · supplement · classified

journalism

editorial

Publication's official viewpoint article

byline · op-ed · feature · newsroom · scoop · lede · beat · investigative · pundit · reporter

daily

routine

Regular sequence of actions

habitual · regular · day-to-day · customary · morning · commute · edition · breakfast · ritual · weekday

historic

chronicle

Ordered historical record

  • archivesStored historical documents
  • eraDistinct historical period
  • epochDistinct historical period

heritage · legacy · timeline · yesteryear · bygone · century · decades · antiquity · tradition · memories

Categories
Opposites
newspaper format and editorial style

The Timestabloid

Sensationalist newspaper format

red-top · gutter press · penny dreadful · yellow journalism

political orientation

The TimesThe Guardian

British daily newspaper

Morning Star · Private Eye · samizdat · underground press · alternative media

journalistic quality and format

The TimesNational Enquirer

American supermarket tabloid

tabloid press · gutter press · yellow journalism · scandal sheets · penny dreadfuls

Family

time, sometimes, times, timeless, lifetime, bedtime, timely, daytime, timed

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G