NEWS

newsworthiness, news

(noun) the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins; “the judge conceded the newsworthiness of the trial”; “he is no longer news in the fashion world”

news, intelligence, tidings, word

(noun) information about recent and important events; “they awaited news of the outcome”

news

(noun) informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone; “it was news to me”

news

(noun) information reported in a newspaper or news magazine; “the news of my death was greatly exaggerated”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

news (uncountable)

New information of interest.

Information about current events disseminated via media.

(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

Verb

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

(transitive, archaic) To report; to make known.

Anagrams

• sewn, snew, wens

Source: Wiktionary

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News, n Etym: [From New; cf. F. nounelles. News

1. A report of recent occurences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tindings; recent intelligence. Evil news rides post, while good news baits. Milton.

2. Something strange or newly happened. It is no news for the weak and poor to be a prey to the strong and rich. L'Estrange.

3. A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper. [Obs.] There cometh a news thither with his horse. Pepys.

NEW

New, a. [Compar. Newer; superl. Newest.] Etym: [OE. OE. newe, AS. niwe, neowe; akin to D. nieuw, OS. niwi, OHG. niuwi, G. neu, Icel. n, Dan. & Sw. ny, Goth. niujis, Lith. naujas, Russ. novuii, Ir. nua, nuadh, Gael. nuadh, W. newydd, Armor. nevez, L. novus, gr. nava, and prob. to E. now. Now, and cf. Announce, Innovate, Neophyte, Novel.]

1. Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's possession; not early or long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; -- opposed to old, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion. "Your new wife." Chaucer.

2. Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new planet; new scenes.

3. Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction.

4. As if lately begun or made; having the state or quality of original freshness; also, changed for the better; renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as, rest and travel made him a new man. Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost new. Bacon.

5. Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously kniwn or famous. Addison.

6. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed. New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace. Pope.

7. Fresh from anything; newly come. New from her sickness to that northern air. Dryden. New birth. See under Birth.

– New Church, or New Jerusalem Church, the church holding the doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. See Swedenborgian.

– New heart (Theol.), a heart or character changed by the power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy motives.

– New land, land ckeared and cultivated for the first time.

– New light. (Zoöl.) See Crappie.

– New moon. (a) The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible. (b) The day when the new moon is first seen; the first day of the lunar month, which was a holy day among the Jews. 2 Kings iv. 23.

– New Red Sandstone (Geol.), an old name for the formation immediately above the coal measures or strata, now divided into the Permian and Trias. See Sandstone.

– New style. See Style.

– New testament. See under Testament.

– New world, the land of the Western Hemisphere; -- so called because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere until recent times.

Syn.

– Novel; recent; fresh; modern. See Novel.

New, adv.

Definition: Newly; recently. Chaucer.

Note: New is much used in composition, adverbially, in the sense of newly, recently, to quality other words, as in new-born, new-formed, new-found, new-mown. Of new, anew. [Obs.] Chaucer.

New, v. t. & i.

Definition: To make new; to renew. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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