news bulletin

1. 1.

   a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story

   Synonymsnewsflashflashnewsbreak

   Broaderbulletin

Questions about news bulletin

What does news bulletin mean?

news bulletin means "a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story".

What is another word for news bulletin?

Close synonyms include newsflash, flash, newsbreak. 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 bulletin a common word?

news bulletin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.