Synonyms:
rumor, rumour, hearsay
Meaning: gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
rumor, rumour, bruit
Meaning: tell or spread rumors; "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman"
Usage examples
Accordingly he was carried into the palace, and the rumor went abroad every where, that he would certainly die in a little time.
One day the rumor spread through the court that the old French king, Louis XII, whose wife, Anne of Brittany, had just died, had asked Mary's hand in marriage.
And the rumor of this new presence having spread itself whisperingly around, there arose at length from the whole company a buzz, or murmur, expressive of disapprobation and surprise--then, finally, of terror, of horror, and of disgust.
What the purpose or nature of the general exodus we did not know, but presently through the line of captives ran the rumor that two escaped slaves had been recaptured--a man and a woman--and that we were marching to witness their punishment, for the man had killed a Sagoth of the detachment that had pursued and overtaken them.