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Rumour

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Chiefly British Variant of rumor.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Alternative spelling of rumor.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. tell or spread rumors

n. gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

Word Usage

"She's off to Vegas, because the rumour is after her asthma OD, she heard about JT (Justin Timberlake) being down with Bill Da Gates at his keynote, so Sergey has got the Qantas 767 out of the hangar and 3rd world poverty missions and he's flying L-Lo str8 into Vegas baby."

Verb Form

rumoured rumours

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

gossip dish the dirt scuttlebutt comment

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

rumor slander tidings supposition accusation