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
And as he had now stayed on, contrary to what he had said, there would be further rumour.
Master Peter long enjoyed the profits of his journey to the mountain, and no rumour of it ever got abroad.
A rumour had spread that his volor had been seen passing over Lake Como, and had been instantly contradicted.
But the rumour ran quickly through the whole camp, probably not without Pepperrell's own encouragement, and at once produced, not a panic, but the most excellent effect.
He imagined a faint, wild rumour of panic voices, conjured up scenes of horror indescribable as that great fabric sank almost instantaneously, as if some gigantic hand plucked her under.
For it set me on my guard as perhaps nothing else would have done, against accepting for true all floating rumour and village gossip, so that now I am by second nature a true sceptic and scarcely believe anything unless the evidence for it is conclusive.
And then more days and nights passed, and this rumour was succeeded by another one--that Stana had procured some flax, and had dried it, and combed it, and spun it into linen, and sewed it herself into the shirt of which she had spoken over the strawberry beds.
This with considerable exertion she transferred to a high shelf in the cupboard, instead of allowing it to remain standing on the floor, for Withers had informed her of an unpleasant rumour about a mouse, which Mary had observed, lost in thought in front of the cupboard.
By what means he did this, I never could learn; but he secreted her in this convent, where he afterwards prevailed with her to take the veil, while a report was circulated in the world, that she was dead, and the father, to save his daughter, assisted the rumour, and employed such means as induced her husband to believe she had become a victim to his jealousy.