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ru⋅mor

  [roo-mer]
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–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

Synonyms:
1. report.
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ru·mor   (rōō'mər)   
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.]
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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