news (no?oz, nyo?oz)pl.n. (used with a sing. verb)1. a. Information about recent events or happenings, especially as reported by means of newspapers, websites, radio, television, and other forms of media.b. A presentation of such information, as in a newspaper or on a newscast: watched the evening news. 2. New information of any kind: The requirement was news to him.3. Newsworthy material: “a public figure on a scale unimaginable in America; whatever he did was news” (James Atlas).[Middle English newes, new things, tidings, pl. of newe, new thing, new; see new.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.news (nju?z) n (functioning as singular) 1. current events; important or interesting recent happenings2. information about such events, as in the mass media3. a. the news a presentation, such as a radio broadcast, of information of this type: the news is at six. b. (in combination): a newscaster. 4. interesting or important information not previously known or realized: it’s news to me. 5. a person, fashion, etc, widely reported in the mass media: she is no longer news in the film world. [C15: from Middle English newes, plural of newe new (adj) on model of Old French noveles or Medieval Latin nova new things] ?newsless adjCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014news (nuz, nyuz) n. (usu. with a sing. v.) 1. a report of a recent event; information: to hear news of a relative. 2. a report on recent or new events in a newspaper or other periodical or on radio or television. 3. such reports taken collectively; information reported: to listen to the news. 4. a person, event, etc., regarded as newsworthy material. 5. a newspaper. [1425?75; late Middle English newis, pl. of newe new thing, novelty (see new); on the model of Middle French noveles (pl. of novele), or Medieval Latin nova (pl. of novum); see novel2] news?less, adj. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.newsgazette – A gazzetta, a Venetian coin of little value, gave rise to the phrase gazzetta de la novita, “halfpennyworth of news,” which eventually gave us gazette.silly season – Any slow news period characterized by trivial news or no news.tidings – Probably comes from Old Norse tithindi, “news of events.”report – To report something is etymologically to “carry it back,” from Latin reportare; the metaphorical sense of “bringing back news” also developed in Latin.Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.