Definitions for rumors

rumors ru·mor

Spelling: [roo-mer]
IPA: /ˈru mər/

Rumors is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in rumors (morrsu).

Definitions for rumors

noun

  1. a story or statement in general circulation without confirmation or certainty as to facts:
  2. gossip; hearsay:
  3. Archaic. a continuous, confused noise; clamor; din.

verb (used with object)

  1. to circulate, report, or assert by a rumor:

Origin of rumors

1325-75; Middle English rumour Middle French Latin rūmor; akin to Sanskrit rāuti, rāvati (he) cries

Examples for rumors

They were built upon high cliffs and rumor had it that no enemy could take them.

Thus the rumor as well as the reality of the threat is used for intimidation.

Not even Radio Bemba (Cuban slang for the rumor mill) had picked up the signal.

Indeed there was rumor that white travelers had seen them north of Mexico.

The rumor of the threatened attack on the spread was known to all the nine now.

He does, however, attempt to dispel some of the myths that have emerged from hearsay and rumor over the last century.

That morning a rumor had reached the village of a famine in the island of Crete.

A rumor of Angels: Quotations for Living, Dying and Letting Goby Gail Perry Johnson and Jill Perry Rabideau.

But the rumor that House Republicans were cutting funding for Ebola had already taken off.

We had paused to recuperate our animals, and there was a rumor that we were to get new clothing.

Word Value for rumors
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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