/njuːz/
Translation
New facts about things that have just happened.
Word origin
From the plural of new, meaning new things, on the model of the Old French noveles.
- Origin
- Middle English
- Root
- new
Examples
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"News" means new facts about what has just happened.
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"News" is uncountable and takes a singular verb, so we say "the news is".
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Here "news" is a happy piece of information.
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