From Middle English newes, newys, equivalent to .

• (British) enPR: nyo͞oz, IPA: /njuːz/
• (America) IPA: /n(j)uz/

news (uncountable)

1. New information of interest.

   Is there any news about the storm?

   That was not much news in the press release.

   • 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I ↗:

     VVith speede let vs impart the newes vnto my Lord the King,
     The fearefull newes that whilſt the flame doth but begin,
     Sad pollicie may ſerue to quench the fire: […]

   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All's Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene iii], page 239 ↗, column 1:

     Sirra, your Lord and maſters married, there's newes for you: you haue a new Miſtris.

2. Information about current events disseminated via media.

   Did you hear/read/see the latest news?

   The news is that a new leader will be elected in one month.

   I heard about the earthquake on the morning news.

3. (internet) Messages posted on newsgroups.

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

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

news (newses, present participle newsing; simple 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.