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news

[ nooz, nyooz ]

noun

, (usually used with a singular verb)
  1. a report of a recent event; intelligence; information:

    His family has had no news of his whereabouts for months.

  2. the presentation of a report on recent or new events in a newspaper or other periodical or on radio or television.
  3. such reports taken collectively; information reported:

    There's good news tonight.

  4. a person, thing, or event considered as a choice subject for journalistic treatment; newsworthy material. Compare copy ( def 5 ).


news

/ njuːz /

noun

  1. current events; important or interesting recent happenings
  2. information about such events, as in the mass media
    1. a presentation, such as a radio broadcast, of information of this type

      the news is at six

    2. ( in combination )

      a newscaster

  3. interesting or important information not previously known or realized

    it's news to me

  4. a person, fashion, etc, widely reported in the mass media

    she is no longer news in the film world

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈnewsless, adjective
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Other Words From

  • newsless adjective
  • newsless·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of news1

First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English newis, plural of newe “new thing, novelty”; modeled on Middle French noveles (plural of novele ), or Medieval Latin nova (plural of novum ); new, novel 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of news1

C15: from Middle English newes, plural of newe new ( adj ) on model of Old French noveles or Medieval Latin nova new things
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Idioms and Phrases

see bad news ; break the news ; no news is good news .
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Example Sentences

The Business Insider publisher is announcing this week the launch of a news bureau in Singapore, kicking off with four reporters and a salesperson.

From Digiday

The president made the assertion during a news briefing where he defended his administration’s response to the pandemic.

Alongside news of Caputo’s hiatus came word that his deputy, Paul Alexander, would permanently leave.

The viewers of Striscia la Notizia, a popular satirical news program, are shown “100% Brumotti,” a segment in which Vittorio Brumotti, a noted trick cyclist, roams Italy on his bike combating various social ills.

The news came hours after Microsoft revealed that TikTok owner ByteDance had rejected its acquisition, putting an end—for now at least—to a geopolitical drama that has roiled the tech world for months.

From Fortune

Almost all of the network and cable news channels said that they would not be showing the cartoons either.

Other major news outlets made the same decision, hiding behind a misplaced sense of multicultural sensitivity.

And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.

Earlier this week, Huckabee ended his Fox News talk show so he could spend time mulling another bid for the Republican nomination.

Terrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”

The expatriated ex-rebels became alarmed by the non-receipt of the indemnity instalment and the news from their homes.

News came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.

A considerable proportion of the industrial and commercial news is now written to an end.

The news of these successes brought crowds of volunteers to our standard.

Next morning Judy shouted that there was a rat in the nursery, and thus he forgot to tell her the wonderful news.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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