Information about recent and important events:
— They awaited news of the outcome.

synonyms: intelligence, tidings, word.

Roget 527: information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge etc. 490; publicity etc. 531; data etc. 467.    communication, intimation; notice, notification; enunciation, annunciation; announcement; communiqu_e; representation, round robin, presentment.    case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition; news etc. 532; return etc. (record) 551; account etc. (description) 594; statement etc. (affirmation) 535.    mention; acquainting etc. v.; instruction etc. (teaching) 537; outpouring; intercommunication, communicativeness.    informant, authority, teller, intelligencer^†, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece; informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth; mouchard^†, spy, newsmonger; messenger etc. 534; amicus curiae [Lat.].    valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide; guidebook, handbook; vade mecum [Lat.]; manual; map, plan, chart, gazetteer; itinerary etc. (journey) 266.    hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition^†, cue, byplay; gesture etc. (indication) 550; gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti [Lat.], a word to the wise; insinuation etc. (latency) 526.    information theory.    [units of information] bit, byte, word, doubleword [Comp.], quad word, paragraph, segment.    [information storage media] magnetic media, paper medium, optical media; random access memory, RAM; read-only memory, ROM; write once read mostly memory, WORM.    ... show more

Roget 532: news; information etc. 527; piece of news [Fr.], budget of news, budget of information; intelligence, tidings.    word, advice, aviso [Sp.], message; dispatch, despatch; telegram, cable, marconigram^†, wire, communication, errand, embassy.    report, rumor, hearsay, on dit [Fr.], flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire [Fr.], scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; tittle tattle; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat.    bulletin, fresh news, stirring news; glad tidings; flash, news just in; on-the-spot coverage; live coverage.    old story, old news, stale news, stale story; chestnut [Slang].    narrator etc. (describe) 594; newsmonger, scandalmonger; talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler.    [study of news reporting] journalism.    [methods of conveying news] media, news media, the press, the information industry; newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette, publication etc. 531; radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission). [organizations producing news reports] [methods of conveying news] United Press International, UPI; Associated Press, AP; The Dow Jones News Service, DJ; The New York Times News Service, NYT; Reuters [Brit.]; TASS [Rus.]; The Nikkei [Jap.].    [person reporting news as a profession] newscaster, newsman, newswoman, reporter, journalist, correspondent, foreign correspondent, special correspondent, war correspondent, news team, news department; anchorman, anchorwoman^†; sportscaster; weatherman.    [officials providing news for an organization] press secretary, public relations department, public relations man.    ... show more

Information reported in a newspaper or news magazine.

Dutch: journaal

A program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary:
— We watch the 7 o'clock news every night.

synonyms: news program, news show.

Dutch: nieuws, actualiteit
Polish: program informacyjny

Informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone.

The quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins:
— The judge conceded the newsworthiness of the trial.
— He is no longer news in the fashion world.

synonym: newsworthiness.

Dutch: nieuwswaarde