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rumour

noun
/ˈɹuːmə(ɹ)/UK/ˈɹuːmɚ/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *rewH-✻ — “to shout, roar”
  2. derived from rūmor — “common talk”
  3. derived from rumour
  4. inherited from rumour

Definitions

  1. British, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland spelling of rumor.

    • Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide
    • There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.

  2. A prolonged, indistinct noise.

    • Prithee, listen well; / I heard a bustling rumour like a fray, / And the wind brings it from the Capitol.

  3. Commonwealth standard spelling of rumor.

    • Two of the four main routes over the Border were rumoured to be threatened with withdrawal of, or heavy cuts in, passenger services.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rumour. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at rumour. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at rumour

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA