Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Information about recent events or happenings, especially as reported by newspapers, periodicals, radio, or television.
- n. A presentation of such information, as in a newspaper or on a newscast.
- n. New information of any kind: The requirement was news to him.
- n. Newsworthy material: "a public figure on a scale unimaginable in America; whatever he did was news” ( James Atlas).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A new or uncommon and more or less surprising thing; a new or unexpected event or occurrence.
- n. Recent, but not necessarily unexpected, intelligence of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown or imperfectly known; tidings.
- n. A newspaper.
- n. A messenger with news.
- n. Synonyms News, Intelligence, Tidings, Advices. News is the most general word, applying to real information which is or is not important, interesting, or expected; news meets especially the desire to know. Intelligence is also a general word, applying to news or information of an interesting character, enabling one to understand better the situation of things in the place from which intelligence comes: as, intelligence from the Sandwich Islands to the 1st ult.; intelligence of a mutiny. Tidings are awaited with anxiety. Advices are items of information sent for the benefit or pleasure of those receiving them. Thus, Philip II. expected no intelligence from the Armada for some days after it sailed; soon rumor brought him false news of a glorious victory gained over the English: his first reliable news of the defeat of the Armada came through advices; he received from time to time tidings of uniform disaster.
- To report; rumor: as, it was newsed abroad that the bank had failed.
Wiktionary
- n. New information of interest.
- n. Reports of current events broadcast via media such as newspapers or television.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A report of recent occurrences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tidings; recent intelligence.
- n. Something strange or newly happened.
- n. obsolete A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper.
WordNet 3.0
- n. information about recent and important events
- n. a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary
- n. information reported in a newspaper or news magazine
- n. informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone
- n. the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins
Etymologies
- From Middle English newes, newys ("new things"), equivalent to new (noun) + -s. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English newes, new things, tidings, pl. of newe, new thing, new; see new. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“AIPAC's 'news' Reporting of Interview with ElBaradei. yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'AIPAC\'s \'news\' Reporting of Interview with ElBaradei. ”
“Then, I shall have news to tell, the _best of news_, I hope; and I won't need to keep anything back.”
“Then, journals were created merely to meet the demand, and news was given as it actually occurred; whereas, now, the competition has produced a change that any one can appreciate, when it is remembered to what a _competition in news_ must infallibly lead.”
“Email us with your suggestions at news@ whitehaven-news. co.uk”
“So I changed it to define ( 'PRINT_TO_SCREEN', false); and then placed it before require ( "header. php"); but when I try use echo $news [ 'post_text']; and others like from the instrction in the news. php file there is notthing been outputed. yet if I use somthing like this echo $m [ 'username']; execpt for the $comment.”
“And good news, bad news─ I don't know which it is more─ but on the Medicare side of that, not the commercial insurance side, generally speaking Republicans like Medicare advantage,”
“HPFacebookVoteV2. init (162659, 'Unearthed: The News Without the Chaff', 'This recurring blog series features a collection of recent news stories about threats to public health, our democracy and the planet which are ignored or underreported by the handful of corporate mainstream media conglomerates, TV pundits, and radio shock jocks who\'ve turned the \ "news\" into little more than an entertainment and product placement opportunity and let down the American public.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle: Unearthed: The News Without the Chaff
“In the world of journalism, the term "news release" is equivalent to "press release" -- the patent itself equates the two in the opening description.”
“I think the only news is that he has decided to look only at firedoglake, that is, the news is all news about how he was wrong about the daily Kos.”
“Analysis: The main news is that they held on to Jay Bouwmeester, who will help their playoff push.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘news’.
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
the bale, the hum.lab situation, media, startup, scientific, gameplay, social, intuitive, creative, collaborative, funding, non-governmental ..., consultant and 124 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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Stuffie: Monging
Stuff you mong.
iron, war, fish, rumor, squid, word, scare, coster, cheese, hate, scandal, fear and 4 more...
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bootload's Words
grouse, beaut, ripper, gassit, hack, hacking, twit, spon, goon, rosella, magpie, galah and 184 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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erich13's list
My Tag Cloud
addon, admire, adobeair, advice, alist, android, api, app, apple, augmentedreality, author, badge and 179 more...
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Masthead Staples
Words from newspaper names/titles. Not the place names or titles of specific publications, just the reusable bits.
times, courier, advocate, news, telegraph, mirror, mail, bulletin, the, post, tribune, chronical and 108 more...
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
gurns, bok, chimney breast, dichotomy, Platonic form, filthy, Platonic Form, mathematics, BAM, skirls, clarity, blundering and 298 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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European World Systems
europe, colonization, defense, barter, feudalism, gunpowder, technology, guns, domination, lords, monarchs, transition and 250 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
times, union, post, dispatch, outlook, star, news, courier, herald, advertiser, daily, eagle and 178 more...
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 866 more...
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HorsesintheSouth
Words pertaining to horses, equines, equestrians
horse, equine, equestrian, dressage, hunter, jumper, puissance, capriole, sidepass, levade, augurian, coop and 296 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for news.
ruzuzu I love this part from the Century: "Thus, Philip II. expected no intelligence from the Armada for some days after it sailed; soon rumor brought him false news of a glorious victory gained over the English: his first reliable news of the defeat of the Armada came through advices; he received from time to time tidings of uniform disaster."
Apr 18, 2012
Louises CNN on the plasma screen for the lulling white noise of the news. I'm immune to news, the news, breaking news, rolling news, newsflashes. Live long enough and nothing is news. 'the News' is 'the new things'... Even The News knows there's no real news, and goes to ever greater lengths to impart urgent novelty to its content. Have your say, that's the latest inanity, newscasters reading out viewer emails. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Feb 26, 2012
john I like that, whichbe, but I think it's a backronym. Check the OED. May 6, 2008
whichbe This word did not come about because it was the plural of 'new.' It came from the first letters of the words North, East, West and South. This was because information was being gathered from all different directions. May 6, 2008
uselessness Out with the olds! In with the new! Jun 7, 2007
reesetee And how do you feel about olds? Jun 6, 2007
uselessness No! I only want one new! You can take the rest and sit on them! Jun 6, 2007