news

1. 1.

   information about recent and important events

   “they awaited news of the outcome”

   Synonymsintelligencetidingsword

   Broaderinformation

   Narrowergood wordlatest
2. 2.

   information reported in a newspaper or news magazine

   “the news of my death was greatly exaggerated”

   Broaderinformation

   Narrowerbusiness newsreportnewscastcoveragehard newssoft newsstop press
3. 3.

   a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary

   “we watch the 7 o'clock news every night”

   Synonymsnews programnews show

   Broaderbroadcast

   Narrowertelevision news
4. 4.

   informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone

   “it was news to me”

   Broaderinformation
5. 5.

   the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins

   “the judge conceded the newsworthiness of the trial”

   “he is no longer news in the fashion world”

   Synonymsnewsworthiness

   Broaderinterest

Other forms of news

plural

news(unchanged)

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about news

What does news mean?

news means "information about recent and important events". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in news?

news has 1 syllable: news. In IPA it is /ˈnuz/.

What is another word for news?

Close synonyms include intelligence, tidings, word, news program, news show. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is news a common word?

news is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.