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say it: nooz
news is a noun meaning "information about recent and important events". It is pronounced /ˈnuz/ — nooz. It carries 5 recorded senses.
information about recent and important events
“they awaited news of the outcome”
information reported in a newspaper or news magazine
“the news of my death was greatly exaggerated”
a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary
“we watch the 7 o'clock news every night”
informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone
“it was news to me”
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for news come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.