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noun
UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland spelling of rumor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A prolonged, indistinct noise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
Commonwealth standard spelling of rumor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: rumor, hearsay
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Broader terms: gossip, comment, scuttlebutt
verb
tell or spread rumors
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rumor, bruit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dish the dirt, gossip
History
From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumour, rumor, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to shout, roar”).
