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news
[ nooz, nyooz ]
noun
- a report of a recent event; intelligence; information:
His family has had no news of his whereabouts for months.
- such reports taken collectively; information reported:
There's good news tonight.
- a person, thing, or event considered as a choice subject for journalistic treatment; newsworthy material. Compare copy ( def 5 ).
news
/ njuːz /
noun
- current events; important or interesting recent happenings
- information about such events, as in the mass media
- a presentation, such as a radio broadcast, of information of this type
the news is at six
- ( in combination )
a newscaster
- interesting or important information not previously known or realized
it's news to me
- a person, fashion, etc, widely reported in the mass media
she is no longer news in the film world
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Derived Forms
- ˈnewsless, adjective
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Other Words From
- newsless adjective
- newsless·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of news1
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Idioms and Phrases
see bad news ; break the news ; no news is good news .Discover More
Example Sentences
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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