word of mouth

See also: word-of-mouth

English

Alternative forms

• word-of-mouth (attributive)

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

word of mouth (uncountable)

1. (idiomatic) Verbal means of passing on information; viva voce.

   The book didn't need to be advertised; it became popular solely by word of mouth.

   • 1983, R.E.M., “Just a Touch”, in Lifes Rich Paegent:

     Kevin heard it on the radio / Hugh informed word of mouth / Carla read it in the news / Caught it all, just a touch

Related terms

• word of finger

Translations

verbal means of passing of information

• Bengali: মুখের কথা (mukher kotha)
• Catalan: boca-orella m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 口口相傳 / 口口相传 (kǒukǒu xiāngchuán), 口傳 / 口传 (zh) (kǒuchuán)

• Danish: mund til mund c
• Dutch: mond-tot-mond n, mond-tot-mond communicatie f
• Esperanto: perbuŝo
• Finnish: suupuhe
• French: bouche à oreille (fr) m
• German: Mundpropaganda (de) f, Mund-zu-Mund-Propaganda (de) f
• Greek: από στόμα σε στόμα (apó stóma se stóma)
• Hungarian: élőszó (hu)
• Icelandic: munnlega f, ^{(please verify)} í munnmælum, ^{(please verify)} á skotspónum
• Indonesian: getok tular, dari mulut ke mulut
• Italian: passaparola (it) m
• Japanese: 口コミ (ja) (くちこみ, kuchikomi), 口伝 (ja) (くでん, kuden)
• Korean: 구전(口傳) (ko) (gujeon)
• Latin: viva voce
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} jungeltelegraf m
• Polish: poczta pantoflowa (pl) f, wici nvir
• Portuguese: boca a boca m, passa-palavra m
• Russian: сарафа́нное ра́дио (ru) n (sarafánnoje rádio)
• Spanish: boca a boca m, boca-oreja m
• Swedish: mun till mun c
• Turkish: dedikodu gazetesi

See also

• word of mouth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia