Kilo Lingo

news

/njuːz/

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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.

television six.

"News" is uncountable and takes a singular verb, so we say "the news is".

whole .

Here "news" is a happy piece of information.

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This word is part of lesson 10.