Definition of Rumour

1. Noun. Gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth.

Exact synonyms: Hearsay, Rumor
Generic synonyms: Comment, Gossip, Scuttlebutt
Derivative terms: Rumor

2. Verb. Tell or spread rumors. "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman"
Exact synonyms: Bruit, Rumor
Generic synonyms: Dish The Dirt, Gossip
Derivative terms: Rumor

Definition of Rumour

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of rumor) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rumour

1. to rumor [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: rumor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rumour

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rumor has it
rumor mill
rumor monger
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rumoredly
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rumoring
rumormonger
rumormongered
rumormongering
rumormongerings
rumormongers
rumorous
rumors
rumour (current term)
rumour'd
rumour campaign
rumour has it
rumour mill
rumour mills
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rumouredly
rumourer
rumourers
rumouring
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rumourmongered
rumourmongering
rumourmongers

Literary usage of Rumour

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness (1873)
"The fits o'] What ftts or That rumour, and yet Becket. fits Anon. ... The sense then is, When we are led by our fears to believe every rumour of danger we ..."

2. Collected papers on analytical psychology by Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long (1917)
"rumour has analysed and interpreted the dream. So far as I know rumour has not hitherto been investigated in this new capacity. This case certainly makes it ..."

3. Herodotus by Herodotus (1828)
"Before the arrival of this rumour at Mycale, the Greeks were in great consternation, not so much on their own account, as from the fear that Greece would ..."

4. The American Democrat, Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the by James Fenimore Cooper (1838)
"rumour. The people of the United States are unusually liable to be imposed on bv false rumours. In addition to the causes that exist elsewhere, ..."

5. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"Nevertheless, the rumour that the crown of Naples was destined for Giuliano, spread further and ... Loo hastened to make assurances that the rumour was ..."

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