Meaning

2 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland spelling of rumor.

  2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A prolonged, indistinct noise.

More definitions
  • gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

Examples

132 sentences

  1. It's just a rumour.

    Це просто чутки.

    deDas ist nur ein Gerücht.

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  2. That rumour is not true, is it?

    Ці чутки неправдиві, чи не так?

    deDas Gerücht stimmt doch nicht, oder?

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  3. The rumours were true.

    Чутки були правдиві.

    ruСлухи оказались верными.

    deDie Gerüchte stimmten.

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  4. They're only rumours.

    Це лише чутки.

    ruЭто лишь слухи.

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  5. Actually, it was just a rumour.

    deEs war eigentlich nur ein Gerücht.

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Origin

From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumour, rumor, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”

From Middle English rumour, from Old French rumour, rumor, from Latin rūmor (“common talk”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rewH- (“to shout, roar”).

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Forms

plural: rumours
Singularrumour
Pluralrumours

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth:rumorhearsay

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
rummyrumorA2rumplerunA1
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