| 1. newspaper; magazine; diary, record of daily occurrences; daybook, bookkeeping ledger (Accounting); daily record of official transactions (of an organization or legislative body); part of a machine axle or shaft held up by a bearing. write in a journal, write in a diary. journaljournal , a. [f., fr. l. diurnalis diurnal, fr. diurnus belonging to the day, fr. dies day. see: diurnal.] daily; diurnal. [obs.] whiles from their journal labors they did rest.journal journal, n. [f. journal. see: journal, a.] |