NEWS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does news mean? 

• NEWS (noun)
  The noun NEWS has 5 senses:

1. information about recent and important events

2. information reported in a newspaper or news magazine

3. a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary

4. informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone

5. the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins

  Familiarity information: NEWS used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Information about recent and important events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

intelligence; news; tidings; word

Context example:

they awaited news of the outcome

Hypernyms ("news" is a kind of...):

info; information (a message received and understood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "news"):

good word (good news)

latest (the most recent news or development)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Information reported in a newspaper or news magazine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the news of my death was greatly exaggerated

Hypernyms ("news" is a kind of...):

info; information (a message received and understood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "news"):

business news (news about businesses and investments)

account; news report; report; story; write up (a short account of the news)

newscast (a broadcast of news or commentary on the news)

coverage; reportage; reporting (the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television)

hard news (news that deals with serious topics or events)

soft news (news that does not deal with serious topics or events)

stop press (late news that is inserted into the newspaper at the last minute)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

news; news program; news show

Context example:

we watch the 7 o'clock news every night

Hypernyms ("news" is a kind of...):

broadcast; program; programme (a radio or television show)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "news"):

television news (a television broadcast of news)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

it was news to me

Hypernyms ("news" is a kind of...):

info; information (a message received and understood)

Derivation:

newsy (full of news)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

news; newsworthiness

Context example:

he is no longer news in the fashion world

Hypernyms ("news" is a kind of...):

interest; interestingness (the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.))

 Context examples 

Most strange; no news yet of the ship we wait for.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I did not attempt to shout, but communicated the news to Wolf Larsen by waving my arm.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then we left Keesh skinning the bear, and came running that the news of the killing might be told.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In that way I didn’t know much of what was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I watched the criminal news, knowing that sooner or later I should get him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I won't preach any more, and I'd like to hear the news immensely.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Here was news indeed for us to bear back with us to London!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have been too abrupt in communicating the news; it has excited you beyond your strength.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It's the best news I have heard for many a day.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)