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News   /nuz/  /njuz/   Listen
noun
News  n.  
1.
A report of recent occurrences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tidings; recent intelligence. "Evil news rides post, while good news baits."
2.
Something strange or newly happened. "It is no news for the weak and poor to be a prey to the strong and rich."
3.
A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper. (Obs.) "There cometh a news thither with his horse."





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"News" Quotes from Famous Books



... a large one, and by driving at close to sixty miles an hour and skirting its edge, he reached the road again a mile ahead of Hiram, and sped on toward home to break the news of defeat to ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
... got the news of freedom. I don't remember what the slaves expected to get. I don't know what they got, if they got anything. I don't ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration
... morning, for devilment; to our loud enjoyment, for the great bath joke has an assured immortality. The Kiraly's husband appears too. Fat in fire. When Kit goes to the hyphenated's flat to exchange fake papers in his belt for letter acknowledging Kiraly's innocence, an agitated Hun appears with the news that the real Goring is in Washington, and the papers all spoof; which was annoying, as a reading-glass had already disclosed to the chief spy the British Government watermark, which obviously proved they ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, March 14, 1917 • Various
... of—of infinity. And nakedness, after all, is a wholesome thing to realize only when one thinks too much of one's clothes. I peer sometimes, feebly enough, out of my wool, and it seems to me that all these busybodies, all these fact-devourers, all this news-reading rabble, are nothing brighter than very dull-witted children trying to play an imaginative game, much too deep for their poor reasons. I don't mean that YOUR wanting to go home is anything gregarious, but I do think ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare
... ten per cent from last year, and fifteen per cent from the year before that," Kellogg was saying. "And some non-Company people have gotten hold of it, and so had Interworld News. Why, even some of my people are talking about ecological side-effects. You know what will happen when a story like that gets back to Terra. The conservation fanatics will get hold of it, ...
— Little Fuzzy • Henry Beam Piper


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