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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
/ ː /
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
Derived Forms
- ˈԱɲ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- Աɲl adjective
- Աɲl·ness noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of news1
Idioms and Phrases
see bad news ; break the news ; no news is good news .Example Sentences
51Թ of California’s somersault over the fading Japan generated coverage in newspapers coast to coast, cable news and even as far afield as the BBC.
But Berg said “it would be good news if these emerging technologies turned out to be effective at predicting who’s most likely to become homeless if they don’t get help.”
Managers of water agencies said that the increased supplies are welcome news, but that the still-limited allocations indicate what they view as constraints that should be addressed.
In the middle of that uncertainty, the news got worse.
In one area of the town of Ishinomaki, the sinking land forced people to contend with regular flooding, according to news reports.
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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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