news

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Pronunciation

• enPR nyo͞oz, IPA: /njuːz/, /nuːz/

Noun

news (uncountable)

1. New information of interest.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Alls Well that Ends Well, Act II, sc 3:

     Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's news for you: you have a new mistress.

   Is there any news about the storm?
   That was not much news in the press release.
2. Information about current events disseminated via media.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 2:

     The fashionable intelligence says so for the comfort of the Parisians, and it knows all fashionable things.

   Did you hear/read/see the latest news?
   The news is that a new leader will be elected in one month.
3. (computing, internet) Posts published on newsgroups

Translations

• French: nouvelles, informations, actualités
• German: Neuigkeiten, Nachricht, Nachrichten, Neues
• Italian: novità, notizie, fatto, avvenimento
• Portuguese: notícias
• Russian: но́вости
• Spanish: noticias

Translations

• French: téléjournal (on television)
• German: Nachricht, Nachrichten
• Italian: notizie, telegiornale (on television)
• Portuguese: noticiário, telejornal
• Russian: но́вости
• Spanish: telediario, informativos, noticias, noticiero

Verb

news (newses, present participle newsing; past and past participle newsed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To report; to make known.
   • 1874, Robert Cowie, Shetland (page 157)

     This remark was newsed abroad; whereupon the loyal authorities of Lerwick immediately had the revolutionary skipper arrested, on a charge of high treason.

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