word of mouth

1. 1.

   gossip spread by spoken communication

   “the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth”

   Synonymsgrapevinepipeline

   Broadergossip

Questions about word of mouth

What does word of mouth mean?

word of mouth means "gossip spread by spoken communication".

What is another word for word of mouth?

Close synonyms include grapevine, pipeline. 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 word of mouth a common word?

word of mouth 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.