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rumour

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishrumour, fromOld Frenchrumour,rumor, fromLatinrūmor(common talk), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*rewH-(to shout, roar).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rumour (countable anduncountable,pluralrumours)

  1. British,Canada,New Zealand,Australia, andIreland spelling ofrumor
    • 1922 February,James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, inUlysses, Paris:Shakespeare and Company, [],→OCLC:
      Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide
    • 1922,Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[1]:
      There wererumours, 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.
    • 1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page167:
      "Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been manyrumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.
    • 1969, Peter Vansittart,Pastimes of a Red Summer: A Novel[2], Owen,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC, page140:
      I myself gave support to the summoning of the Estates General ... as merely mistaken . Similarly it might be held that Paradise originated in arumour invented in hell to make society the more interesting . ' ' We need a saviour .
    • 1991 September,Stephen Fry, chapter 1, inThe Liar, London:Heinemann,→ISBN, section I,page18:
      DameRumour outstrides me yet again.
  2. (obsolete) A prolonged, indistinct noise.

Verb

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rumour (third-person singular simple presentrumours,present participlerumouring,simple past and past participlerumoured)

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling ofrumor.
    • 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Drastic cuts in Scotland?”, inTrains Illustrated, page644:
      Two of the four main routes over the Border wererumoured to be threatened with withdrawal of, or heavy cuts in, passenger services.
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