News
nounNewly received or noteworthy information about recent events.
How to spell news
4 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce news
What does news mean?
- nounNewly received or noteworthy information about recent events.
News in a sentence
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The morning news covered the storm damage across the coast.
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She shared the good news about her promotion with the whole team.
Where does news come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
The word news grew directly out of the English adjective 'new', which comes from the Old English 'niwe', meaning recent or fresh. By the late 1300s, English writers used the plural form 'newes' to mean 'new things' or fresh reports, a pattern that loosely echoed the French 'nouvelles' and Latin 'nova', both of which also turned the idea of 'new things' into a word for tidings. Although it ends in -s and behaves like a plural, news settled into English as a singular mass noun, which is why we say 'the news is good' rather than 'are good'. A popular myth claims the word is an acronym from the four compass points North, East, West, South, but that is pure folk invention; the honest origin is simply the plural of 'new'. The spelling trap is the silent debate over the ending, since the word sounds like it could be 'newz' yet is always written with a single s.
How the word is built
- new (recent, fresh)
- -s (plural-style ending forming a mass noun)
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