RUMOUR

rumor, rumour, hearsay

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

rumor, rumour, bruit

(verb) tell or spread rumors; “It was rumored that the next president would be a woman”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

rumour (countable and uncountable, plural rumours)

British, Canadian, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland alternative spelling of rumor

(obsolete) A prolonged, indistinct noise.

Verb

rumour (third-person singular simple present rumours, present participle rumouring, simple past and past participle rumoured)

Commonwealth standard spelling of rumor.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

25 March 2025

IMMOBILIZATION

(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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