media

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)

   There is, again, “the writing medium,” the man or woman influenced seeming to lose control of the right arm, when the pen or pencil is taken;[…]. There is, finally, “the speaking medium,” the person influenced being lost in a swoon or trance, and then uttering strange and unaccountable sentiments and expressions. Moreover, it is now asserted as the teaching of these media, that the scenes of the Salem witchcraft, so called, were the attempts of the spirits in another world to make their presence known, and to convey communications to the living. […] Media, Persons of Nervous Organism. […] We should not disparage at all, we wish not to do so, the character of those who are generally the media. We allude not to the fact that they are generally young, and inexperienced, and females.

2. 2
   noun

   The 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.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.

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

5. 5
   adj

   Clipping of multimedia.

   I have media files stored on an external hard drive.

6. 6
   noun

   The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.

7. 7
   noun

   A voiced stop consonant.

8. 8
   noun

   One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Mēdia, from Ancient Greek Μηδία (Mēdía), from Μῆδος (Mêdos), from *Mada (vocalization uncertain), the Old Median language self-designator signifying speakers of the Median language. Compare Old Persian 𐎶𐎠𐎭 (Māda). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”) i.e. central kingdom, cognate with Sanskrit मध्य (mádhya).