• (RP) IPA: /ˈmiː.di.ə/, /ˈmɛ.di.ə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈmi.di.ə/

media (plural medias)

1. (anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
2. (linguistics, dated) A voiced stop consonant.

   Antonyms: tenuis

3. (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus
4. (zoology) An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
5. (historical) Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L

• (vein of insect wing) M

Latinate plural of medium, particularly as a clipping of communications media and often reinterpreted as singular or mass noun, from Latin media, neuter plural form of medius, from itc-pro *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos.

• (RP) IPA: /ˈmiːdiə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈmidi.ə/

1. plural form of medium (only in certain senses)
2. (rare, nonstandard) plural form of medium

media

1. (often, treated as uncountable) Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.

   As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media and, second, web-based media, traditional print-based media has declined in popularity.

2. (often treated as uncountable) The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.

   Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.

   • 2020, Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do, page 161:

     […] yet they are all wildly popular pieces of media, viewed by millions of Christians and non-Christians alike. Why? Because they are first and foremost masterful movies and TV shows. Their creators made something worth seeing and sharing.

3. (usually, with a definite article; often treated as uncountable) The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.

   Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.

4. (computing) Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.

• Italian: media, mass media
• Portuguese: mídia (Brazil), média, media
• Russian: ме́диа
• Spanish: medios

• French: médias
• German: Medien
• Portuguese: mídia (Brazil), média, media
• Russian: средства массовой информации
• Spanish: medios de comunicación, medios, prensa

Shortening from multimedia, from multi- + media ("forms of communication").

media (not comparable)

1. (computing) Clipping of multimedia

   I have media files stored on an external hard drive.

   Adjust media sound in multiple apps

From , from , from Μῆδος, from *Mada (vocalization uncertain), the language self-designator signifying speakers of the Median language.

• IPA: /ˈmiːdɪə/

1. (historical) A region in northwestern Iran, originally inhabited by the Medes
2. (historical) The territories corresponding to the empire ruled by dynasts from Media.
3. A place in USA:
   1. A twp/and/village therein, in Henderson County.
   2. A ghost town in Douglas County, Kansas.
   3. A borough/county seat in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

• Mede

• French: Médie
• German: Medien
• Russian: Ми́дия

• German: Medien
• Russian: Ми́дия