Thesaurus:rumor
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: a statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source edit
Synonyms edit
- bruit (obsolete)
- buzz
- fame (rare)
- hearsay
- moot (British dialect)
- on dit
- rumor
- sough [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete, British dialect)
- muttering
- noise
- tale
- word [⇒ thesaurus]
- word on the street (idiomatic)
- word on the wire (idiomatic)
- whisper
- whispering
Hypernyms edit
Various edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “532. news” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “rumor” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.