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News

noun

Information about recent and important events. Synonyms: intelligence, tidings, word.

Information reported in a newspaper or news magazine.

A program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary. Synonyms: news program, news show.

Informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone.

The quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins. Synonym: newsworthiness. "He is no longer news in the fashion world"

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"News" Quotes from Famous Books

... the tribe did honor to Eut-le-ten. He was found in the councils of the chiefs, and tribes with homes on distant shores heard the great news—the news of how this wonder boy had killed the ogre ...

— Indian Legends of Vancouver Island • Alfred Carmichael

... continue long as at present, but remembers our proximity to Cape Crozier and the length of the blizzards recorded in that region. As usual we sleep and eat, conversing as cheerfully as may be in the intervals. There is scant news of our small outside world—only a report of comfort and a rumour that Bowers' pony has eaten one of ...

— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott

... Colonel Leslie, this army is melting away like a snow-wreath. There's no denying it. Your General misses it. The news of one brave battle would send the good blood to the fingers' ends from ten thousand chilled hearts; no matter how fearful the odds; the better, the better,—no matter how large the loss;—for every slain soldier, a hundred better would stand on ...

— The Bride of Fort Edward • Delia Bacon

... of the most brilliant seasons the Capital had ever known, less than a fortnight before Congress was to adjourn, the wife of Grenfall Lorry received the news which spread gloomy disappointment over the entire social realm. A dozen receptions, teas and balls were destined to lose their richest attraction, and hostesses were in despair. The princess had ...

— Beverly of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... time the news has got into the court. Groups of its inhabitants assemble to discuss the thing, and the outposts of the army of observation (principally boys) are pushed forward to Mr. Krook's window, which they closely invest. ...

— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

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