news
/njuːz
/noun [mass noun]
1Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent events: I’ve got some good news for you...
- She's been saying this for a few weeks, not just since the recent news story.
- The site will also feature an hour-by-hour weblog of campaign events and news stories.
- As a result, concerned citizens do not receive timely news about political issues that they want.
1.1 (the news) A broadcast or published report of news: he was back in the news again...
- There's a story in the news reporting that Oxford Street may get a pedestrian fast lane.
- Issues about or affecting teenagers are regularly in the news, but we seldom hear what they have to say.
- The evil ones are not afraid of officials, they are only afraid of being reported in the news.
Synonyms
report, announcement, story, account;
(news) item, article, news flash, newscast, headlines, press release, communication, communiqué, bulletin;
message, dispatch, statement, intelligence;
disclosure, revelation, word, talk, notice, intimation, the latest, gossip, tittle-tattle, rumour, scandal, exposé
informal scoop
literary tidings
archaic advices
1.2 (news to) informal Information not previously known to (someone): this was hardly news to her...
- This is hardly news to anyone who has watched this programme's seven-year meltdown.
- Really, that's news to me.
1.3A person or thing considered interesting enough to be reported in the news: Chanel became the hottest news in fashion...
- We know that fashion isn't real news, unless a company buys one of its rivals.
- In any event they are big sums, and like big names, they are always news.E2.0.CO%3B2-K
Phrases
be good (or bad) news
no news is good news
Derivatives
newsless
Origin
Late Middle English: plural of new, translating Old French noveles or medieval Latin nova 'new things'.
Rhymes
- chloritic
- chloritization
- chloritoid
- chloro-
- chlorocarbon
- chlorodyne
- chlorofluorocarbon
- chloroform
- chloromelanite
- chloromycetin
- chlorophyll
- chlorophyllous
- Chlorophyta
- chlorophyte
- chloroplast
- chloroprene
- chloroquine
- chlorosis
- chlorothiazide
- chlorotic
- chlorous acid
- chlorpromazine
- chlorpyrifos
- chlortetracycline
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