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单词 rumor
释义
rumor
noun[CorU]
US(UKrumour)
us
/ˈruː.mɚ/uk
/ˈruː.mər/
B2
anunofficialinterestingstoryorpieceofnewsthat might betrueorinvented, andquicklyspreadsfrompersontoperson:
Rumors aregoing around(theschool)aboutMr.Masonand hisassistant.
[+ that]She'scirculating/spreadingrumorsthatthemanageris going toresign.
Iheardarumor that she'd beenseeingLuke Harrison.
rumor has it
peopleare saying:
Rumor has it(that)you're going to be the nextmanagingdirector. Is ittrue?
More examples
  • Ihearda rumor that she'sleaving, butapparentlythere's nothing in it.
  • A rumor hassurfacedthat thecompanyis about to go out ofbusiness.
  • Thepresidenthasconsistentlydeniedthe rumors.
  • Hedeniedallresponsibilityfor the rumors that have beencirculating.
  • Thecompanymovedquicklytoquashrumors that it islosingmoney.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Gossip and rumour
  • a little bird told meidiom
  • anecdotal
  • bird
  • bush telegraph
  • dirt
  • ear
  • exposure
  • furphy
  • hearsay
  • lip
  • on everyone's lipsidiom
  • peddle
  • reportedly
  • rumoured
  • say-so
  • scandal
  • scaremongering
  • scoop
  • swirl
  • yourears must be burningidiom
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(Definition ofrumorfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

rumor| American Dictionary

rumor
noun[C/U]
(CdnBrrumour)
us
/ˈru·mər/
anunofficial,interestingstoryorpieceofnewsthat might betrueorinvented, and that iscommunicatedquicklyfrompersontoperson:
[C]Rumors about her arecirculatingatschool.

rumored

adjective[not gradable](CdnBrrumoured)us
/ˈru·mərd/
The rumoredplantosellthecompanyneveractuallytookplace.
(Definition ofrumorfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrumor

rumor
Clearly, then, such rumors provided excuses for some young wives of military men to stray from their marriages.
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In this setting, rumors circulated among the female students who were trying to make sense of the formal awards ceremony with the sultan.
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In the absence of any prior public notice or explanation, rumors filled the information void once the gathering and dispatching of students began.
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With therumor, creditors immediately surrounded the bakery trying to collect their debts.
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Amid the intermittent drought conditions of the late 1890s, people often focused their rumors particularly on the contamination of local water supplies.
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None of this, however, ever got beyond the proposal stage, or therumormill, to become actual policy.
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The widespread rumors of his illiteracy seem to be at least partially true.
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It can be positive (scotch arumor) or negative (scotch their fun).
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Contemporary accounts speak frequently of wild rumors and inexplicable speculations which seem to have pervaded this incident.
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These rumors are absurd and nonsensical, as the government has no intention whatsoever of baptizing us.
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By that more sophisticated standard, the adaptationist research program has done quite well in recent decades, despite premature rumors of its untimely demise.
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The rest of the population sensed the documents' content through leaks and rumors and derived a practical lesson.
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In many cases, in fact, popular rumors embodied connections between these different, overlapping state manipulations of local ecologies.
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As evidenced by the rumors that spread throughout groups of ex-soldiers, many askaris saw membership as the key to maintaining elite status.
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We certainly have to dispel therumorthat functional languages are for teaching compilers, interpreters, and type systems.
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