TIDINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tidings mean? 

• TIDINGS (noun)
  The noun TIDINGS has 1 sense:

1. information about recent and important events

  Familiarity information: TIDINGS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIDINGS (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 ("tidings" is a kind of...):

info; information (a message received and understood)

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

good word (good news)

latest (the most recent news or development)

 Context examples 

From the first moment of her dark eyes resting on me, I saw she knew I was the bearer of evil tidings.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A day or two passed away and brought no tidings of Captain Tilney.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The following spring he was seen again in town, found equally agreeable, again encouraged, invited, and expected, and again he did not come; and the next tidings were that he was married.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Another day and no tidings of the Czarina Catherine. She ought to be here by now.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was this moment telling Jane, I thought you would begin to be impatient for tidings of us.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Elinor grew impatient for some tidings of Edward.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

MY DEAR BROTHER, At last I am able to send you some tidings of my niece, and such as, upon the whole, I hope it will give you satisfaction.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Her occupation, suspended by Mr. Rochester's announcement, seemed now forgotten: her eyes, fixed on the blank wall opposite, expressed the surprise of a quiet mind stirred by unwonted tidings.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My father and Ernest yet lived, but the former sunk under the tidings that I bore.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But they had seen no one from the Parsonage, not a creature, and had heard no tidings beyond a friendly note of congratulation and inquiry from Mrs. Grant to Lady Bertram.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)