news

news

See also: News

English

Etymology

From Middle English newes, newys (“new things”), equivalent to new (noun) +‎ -s. Compare Saterland Frisian Näis (“news”), East Frisian näjs ("news"), West Frisian nijs (“news”), Dutch nieuws (“news”), German Low German Neeis (“new things; news”). Often erroneously said to be an acronym of "North, East, West, South" or "Noteworthy Events, Weather, Sports".

Pronunciation

• enPR: n(y)o͞oz, IPA^(key): /n(j)uːz/

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• Homophones: gnus, nus (in some dialects)
• Rhymes: -uːz
• Hyphenation: news

Noun

news (uncountable)

1. New information of interest.

   Is there any news about the storm?

   That was not much news in the press release.

   • 1593, anonymous, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

     VVith speede let vs impart the newes vnto my Lord the King,
     The fearefull newes that whilſt the flame doth but begin,
     Sad pollicie may ſerue to quench the fire: […]

   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:

     Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's news for you: you have a new mistress.

2. Information about current events disseminated via media.

   Did you hear/read/see the latest news?

   The news is that a new leader will be elected in one month.

   I heard about the earthquake on the morning news.

3. (computing, Internet) Posts published on newsgroups

Hyponyms

• bad news
• benews
• breaking news
• fake news
• good news
• hard news
• local news
• national news
• soft news
• world news

 

Derived terms

• news agency
• newsagent
• newsboy
• newscaster
• news conference
• news feature
• news feed
• newsflash
• newsgirl
• newsgroup
• newshawk
• newshound
• newsletter
• newsman
• newspaper
• newsprint
• newsreader
• newsreel
• news report
• news reporter
• newsroom
• news sheet
• news stand
• news station
• news stream
• newswire
• newswoman
• newsy
• no news is good news
• slow news day
• that's news to me

 

Translations

new information of interest

Afrikaans: nuus (af) Albanian: lajm (sq) m, kumt (sq) (random bad news) Amharic: ዜና (zena) Arabic: أَخْبَار‎ (ar) (ʾaḵbār)أَنْبَاء‎ pl (ʾanbāʾ), خَبَر‎ m (ḵabar) Egyptian Arabic: خَبَر‎ m (ḵabar) Armenian: նորություն (hy) (norutʿyun), լուր (hy) (lur), գույժ (hy) (guyž) (bad news), ավետիս (hy) (avetis) (good news) Assamese: বাতৰি (batori) Avar: хабар (xabar) Azerbaijani: xəbər (az), xəbərlər pl, soraq Balinese: orta, orti Bashkir: хәбәр (xäbär), яңылыҡ (yaŋılıq) Basque: berriak Belarusian: наві́ны f pl (navíny) Bengali: খবর (bn) (khôbôrô) Bikol Central: bareta (bcl) Bole: labar Bulgarian: новини́ (bg) f pl (noviní), изве́стия (bg) n pl (izvéstija), ве́сти (bg) f pl (vésti), но́вости (bg) f pl (nóvosti) Burmese: သတင်းစကား (my) (sa.tang:ca.ka:), သတင်း (my) (sa.tang:) Catalan: notícies (ca) f pl Chechen: хабар (xabar) Cherokee: ᎧᏃᎮᏓ (kanoheda) Chichewa: nkhani Chinese: Cantonese: 消息 (siu1 sik1) Mandarin: 消息 (zh) (xiāoxī), 新聞／新闻 (zh) (xīnwén) Czech: noviny (cs) f pl Danish: nyt Dutch: nieuws (nl) n Esperanto: novaĵoj Estonian: uudis, uudised (et) pl Evenki: мэдэвкэ (mədəwkə) Faroese: tíðindi Finnish: uutinen (fi) French: nouvelles (fr) f pl, informations (fr) f pl, actualités (fr) f pl Galician: novas f pl Georgian: ცნობა (cnoba), სიახლე (siaxle) German: Neuigkeiten (de) f pl, Nachricht (de) f, Nachrichten (de) f pl, Neues (de) n Greek: ειδήσεις (el) (eidíseis), νέα (el) (néa) Gujarati: સમાચાર (gu) (samācār) Haitian Creole: nouvèl Halkomelem: sqwéqwel Hausa: labari (ha) Hebrew: חֲדָשׁוֹת‎ (he) f pl (khadashót) Hindi: ख़बर f (xabar), समाचार (hi) m (samācār), संदेश (hi) m (sandeś), खबर (hi) f (khabar), वार्ता (hi) f (vārtā), बातचीत (hi) f (bātcīt) Hungarian: újság (hu), hír (hu) Icelandic: fréttir (is) f pl Ido: informo (io) Indonesian: berita (id), kabar (id), warta (id), info (id) Irish: scéal (ga) m Italian: novità (it) f pl, notizie (it) f pl, fatto (it) m, avvenimento (it) m Japanese: 知らせ (ja) (shirase) Javanese: Carakan: ꦮꦂꦠ (jv) (warta), ꦮꦂꦠꦺꦴꦱ꧀ (wartos), ꦏꦧꦂ (jv) (kabar) Roman: warta (jv), wartos, kabar Kannada: ಸುದ್ದಿ (kn) (suddi) Kazakh: жаңалық (kk) (jañalyq), хабар (xabar) Khmer: ព័ត៌មាន (km) (pɔədɑɑmiən), ដំណឹង (km) (dɑmnəng) Korean: 소식(消息) (ko) (sosik), 소문(所聞) (ko) (somun), 뉴스 (ko) (nyuseu), 알림 (ko) (allim) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: دەنگوباس‎ (dengubas), ھەواڵ‎ (ku) (hewall) Northern Kurdish: nûçe (ku) f Kyrgyz: жаңылык (ky) (jaŋılık), кабар (ky) (kabar) Ladino: haber Lao: ຂ່າວ (lo) (khāo), ຂ່າວສານ (khāo sān) Latgalian: zine f, zinis f pl, jaunums m, jaunumi m pl Latvian: ziņas f pl Lezgi: хабар (χabar) Lithuanian: naujiena (lt) f Lü: ᦃᦱᧁᧈ (ẋaaw¹) Macedonian: вести f pl (vesti), новости f pl (novosti), новини f pl (novini) Malay: khabar (ms), berita (ms) Malayalam: വാർത്ത (ml) (vāṟtta), വർത്തമാനം (vaṟttamānaṃ) Maltese: ġrajjiet kurenti pl, aħbarijiet pl Maori: rongo, pūrongo (mi), kawepūrongo Marathi: बातमी (bātmī) Mauritian Creole: nouvel Mi'kmaq: agnutmaqan inan Middle English: newes, word, bodeword Mongolian: Cyrillic: мэдээ (mn) (medee), сураг (mn) (surag), чимээ (mn) (čimee) Nanai: мэдэ Nepali: समाचार (ne) (samācār) Northern Altai: мэд (med), чаҥынык (čaŋïnïk) Northern Sami: ođas Norwegian: Bokmål: nyhet (no) m or f Nynorsk: nyheit f Old English: spell n Old Tupi: pomaranduba Oriya: ସମ୍ବାଦ (sômbadô) Ossetian: хабар (xabar) Pashto: خبر‎ (ps) m (xabar), احوال‎ (ps) m pl (ahwāl) Persian: اخبار‎ (fa) pl ('axbâr), تازه‌ها‎ (tâze-hâ), خبر‎ (fa) (xabar), خبرها‎ (xabar-hâ) Polish: nowości f pl, news (pl) m Portuguese: notícias (pt) f pl Punjabi: ਖ਼ਬਰਾਂ m (xabrā̃), ਖ਼ਬਰ f (xabar) Romanian: știre (ro) f, noutate (ro) f Russian: но́вости (ru) f pl (nóvosti), изве́стия (ru) n pl (izvéstija), ве́сти (ru) f pl (vésti) Scottish Gaelic: fios m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ве̑сти f pl (Ekavian), вије̑сти f pl (Ijekavian) Roman: vȇsti (sh) f pl (Ekavian), vijȇsti (Ijekavian) Sicilian: nutizzia (scn) f Sinhalese: පුවත් (puwat), ප්රවෘත්ති (prawr̥tti) Slovak: novinky f pl Slovene: novice (sl) f pl Somali: war Sotho: ditaba (st) Southern Altai: јаҥылык (ǰaŋïlïk), мед (med) Spanish: noticias (es) f pl Sranan Tongo: nyunsu Swahili: habari (sw) Swedish: nyhet (sv) c, nyheter (sv) c pl Tagalog: balita (tl) Tajik: ахбор (tg) (axbor), навӣ (navī), навигарӣ (navigarī), маълумот (tg) pl (maʾlumot), хабар (tg) (xabar) Tamil: செய்தி (ta) (ceyti) Tatar: яңалык (tt) (yañalıq), хәбәр (tt) (xäbär) Telugu: వార్తలు (te) (vārtalu), వార్త (te) (vārta) Thai: ข่าว (th) (kàao), ข่าวสาร (th) (kàao-sǎan), ข่าวคราว (th) (kàao-kraao) Tibetan: གསར་འགྱུར (gsar 'gyur) Tigrinya: ዜና (zena) Turkish: haber (tr) Turkmen: habar Tuvan: чаалык (çaalık), меде (mede) Ukrainian: нови́ни f pl (novýny), ві́сті f pl (vísti) Urdu: خبر‎ f (xabar), اخبار‎ m pl (axbār), خبریں‎ f pl (khabrain), سماچار‎ m (samācār) Uyghur: خەۋەر‎ (xewer), يېڭىلىق‎ (yë'ngiliq), ئاخبارات‎ (axbarat) Uzbek: xabar (uz), yangilik (uz) Vietnamese: tin tức (vi), tin (vi) Walloon: novele (wa) f Welsh: newyddion (cy) m pl West Frisian: nijs n Yagnobi: хапар (xapar) Yiddish: בשׂורה‎ f (bsure), נײַעס‎ pl (nayes), ידיעה‎ f (yedie) Zazaki: hewadis c, xeber f Zhuang: siusik, sinhvwnz Zulu: izindaba

reports of current events

Afrikaans: nuus (af) Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: أَخْبَار‎ (ar) pl (ʾaḵbār), أَنْبَاء‎ pl (ʾanbāʾ) Egyptian Arabic: خَبَر‎ m (ḵabar) Armenian: նորություններ pl (norutʿyunner), լուրեր pl (lurer) Azerbaijani: xəbərlər pl Balinese: orta, orti Bashkir: яңылыҡ (yaŋılıq), хәбәр (xäbär) Basque: albisteak Bengali: খবর (bn) (khôbôrô) Bikol Central: bareta (bcl) Breton: nevezioù (br) Catalan: (on television) telenotícies m, (on radio) informatiu (ca) m, (on paper) diari (ca) m Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵉⵏⵖⵎⵉⵙⵏ (inɣmisn) Chichewa: nkhani Chinese: Cantonese: 新聞／新闻, 新闻 (san1 man4; san1 man4-2) Dungan: бо (bo) Mandarin: 新聞／新闻 (zh) (xīnwén) Cornish: nowodhow Danish: nyheder c Dutch: (on television) journaal (nl) n, nieuws (nl) n Esperanto: novaĵoj Estonian: uudised (et) pl Farefare: dãmnɛ Finnish: uutiset (fi) pl French:informations (fr) f pl, infos (fr) f pl, (on television) téléjournal (fr) m Galician: noticias f pl, telexornal m (TV) Georgian: ახალი ამბები (axali ambebi) German: Nachricht (de) f, Nachrichten (de) f pl Hebrew: חֲדָשׁוֹת‎ (he) f pl (khadashót) Hindi: खबर (hi) f (khabar), वार्ता (hi) f (vārtā), बातचीत (hi) f (bātcīt) Hungarian: hírek (hu), híradó (hu), hírműsor Icelandic: fréttir (is) f pl Ido: informo (io) Indonesian: berita (id) Irish: nuacht (ga) Italian: notizie (it) f pl, telegiornale (it) m (on television) Japanese: 報道 (ja) (ほうどう, hōdō), ニュース (ja) (nyūsu) Javanese: Carakan: ꦮꦂꦠ (jv) (warta), ꦮꦂꦠꦺꦴꦱ꧀ (wartos) Roman: warta (jv), wartos Korean: 뉴스 (ko) (nyuseu), 기사(記事) (ko) (gisa), 보도(報道) (ko) (bodo) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: دەنگوباس‎ (dengubas) Northern Kurdish: nûçe (ku) f Latgalian: zinis f or pl, jaunumi m or pl Latin: nuntium n, nuntia n pl Latvian: ziņas f pl, jaunumi f pl Lithuanian: naujienos f pl Macedonian: вести f pl (vesti), дневник m (dnevnik) Malay: Berita Malayalam: വാർത്ത (ml) (vāṟtta) Maltese: aħbarijiet pl Manx: naight Maori: kawepūrongo Marathi: बातमी (bātmī) Mi'kmaq: agnutmaqan inan Moore: koɛɛga, bore, kibare sg, kibaya pl Norwegian: Bokmål: nyheter (no) m pl or f pl Nynorsk: nyheiter f pl Oriya: ଖବର (or) (khôbôrô) Polish: wiadomości (pl) pl, wiadomość (pl) f Portuguese: noticiário (pt) m, telejornal (pt) m Romanian: știre (ro) f, știri f pl Russian: но́вости (ru) f pl (nóvosti), изве́стия (ru) n pl (izvéstija) Scottish Gaelic: naidheachdan Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ве̑сти f pl (Ekavian), вије̑сти f pl (Ijekavian) Roman: vȇsti (sh) f pl (Ekavian), vijȇsti (Ijekavian) Sicilian: telegiurnali m Sotho: ditaba (st) Spanish: telediario m, informativos (es) m pl, noticias (es) f, noticiero m Sranan Tongo: nyunsu Swahili: habari (sw) Swedish: nyheter (sv) c pl Tagalog: balita (tl) Tamil: செய்தி (ta) (ceyti) Telugu: వార్తలు (te) (vārtalu) Tibetan: གསར་འགྱུར (gsar 'gyur) Turkish: haberler (tr) pl Vietnamese: bản tin, tin (vi), thời sự (vi) Walloon: noveles (wa) f pl (del tévé) (on television), (do posse) (on radio), (del gazete) (on newspapers); djournå (wa) m (on television, on radio), djournå (wa) m, noveles (wa) f pl Welsh: newyddion (cy) m pl Zazaki: newey n

Verb

news (third-person singular simple present newses, present participle newsing, simple past and past participle newsed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To report; to make known.
   • 1874, Robert Cowie, Shetland (page 157)

     This remark was newsed abroad; whereupon the loyal authorities of Lerwick immediately had the revolutionary skipper arrested, on a charge of high treason.

References

• News (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• news on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “news”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “news”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “news”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “news” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Anagrams

• sewn, snew, wens

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /njuz/

Noun

news m (plural news)

1. news magazine or programme

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Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

• nyouz

Etymology

From English news.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [njuz]

Noun

news

1. news, information

   Synonyms: nouvel, samachar

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Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English news.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲjus/
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: news

Noun

news m anim

1. (colloquial) news (new information of interest)

Declension

Declension of news

	singular	plural
nominative	news	newsy
genitive	newsa	newsów
dative	newsowi	newsom
accusative	newsa	newsy
instrumental	newsem	newsami
locative	newsie	newsach
vocative	newsie	newsy

Derived terms

adjective

• newsowy

 

Further reading

• news in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• news in Polish dictionaries at PWN