media
The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of…The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
» I have no experience with the mass medias.
Ich habe keine Erfahrungen mit den Massenmedien.
Meaning
9 sensesThe middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
(dated)A voiced stop consonant.
One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
(historical)Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L
(countable, uncountable)The means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media and, second, web-based media, traditional print-based media has declined in popularity.
ме́диаmédia
ме́діаmédia
(countable, uncountable)The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.
Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.
(countable, uncountable, usually)The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.
Medien
сре́дства ма́ссовой информа́цииsrédstva mássovoj informácii, СМИSMI, масс-ме́диаmass-média
ЗМІZMI, ме́діаmédia, мас-ме́діаmas-média
(countable, uncountable)Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.
Examples
1 sentencesI have no experience with the mass medias.
deIch habe keine Erfahrungen mit den Massenmedien.
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
By meaning 1
Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjectiveLearned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.
Latinate plural of medium, particularly as a clipping of communications media and often reinterpreted as singular or mass noun, from Latin media, neuter plural form of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).
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Forms
plural: medias / mediae / mediaSynonyms
2 synonymsAntonyms
1 antonymsWord family
74 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- B2Media and the news — Because the lesson uses it
- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular