news

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Information about recent and important events.

   They awaited news of the outcome.

2. 2
   noun

   Reports about current events shared by television, radio, newspapers, or the internet.

   Did you hear the latest news?

3. 3
   noun

   A television or radio programme about current events.

   We watch the seven o'clock news every night.

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From Middle English newes, newys (“new things”), equivalent to new (noun) + -s (plural suffix). Compare Saterland Frisian Näis (“news”), East Frisian näjs (“news”), West Frisian nijs (“news”), Dutch nieuws (“news”), German Low German Neeis (“new things; news”), though, unlike the English word, those cognates originated as genitives, not as plurals. Sometimes erroneously claimed to be an acronym of "North, East, West, South" or "Noteworthy Events, Weather, Sports".

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