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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
ru·mor       [roo-mer] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a story or statement in general circulation without confirmation or certainty as to facts: a rumor of war.
2.gossip; hearsay: Don't listen to rumor.
3.Archaic. a continuous, confused noise; clamor; din.
–verb (used with object)
4.to circulate, report, or assert by a rumor: It is rumored that the king is dead.
Also, especially British, rumour.


[Origin: 1325–75; ME rumour < MF < L rūmor; akin to Skt rāuti, rāvati (he) cries]

1. report.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
ru·mor       (rōō'mər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A piece of unverified information of uncertain origin usually spread by word of mouth.
  2. Unverified information received from another; hearsay.

tr.v.   ru·mored, ru·mor·ing, ru·mors
To spread or tell by rumor.


[Middle English rumour, from Old French, from Latin rūmor.]

Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
rumor 
c.1374, from O.Fr. rumour "widespread noise or report" (Fr. rumeur), from L. rumorem (nom. rumor) "noise, clamor, common talk, rumor," related to ravus "hoarse." The verb is recorded from 1858 in the sense "spread a rumor." Rumor mill is from 1973.

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rumor

noun
1. gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth 

verb
1. tell or spread rumors; "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman" 

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Rumor

Ru"mor\, n. [F. rumeur, L. rumor; cf. rumificare, rumitare to rumor, Skr. ru to cry.] [Written also rumour.]

1. A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety.

This rumor of him went forth throughout all Judea, and throughout all the region round about. --Luke vii. 17.

Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight. --Shak.

2. A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth; -- in this sense often personified.

Rumor next, and Chance, And Tumult, and Confusion, all embroiled. --Milton.

3. A prolonged, indistinct noise. [Obs.] --Shak.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Rumor

Ru"mor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rumored; p. pr. & vb. n. Rumoring.] To report by rumor; to tell.

'T was rumored My father 'scaped from out the citadel. --Dryden.

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