Tra từ news - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

see also NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE, TELEVISION/RADIO
- information about things that have happened recently: news (noun U)
a piece of news ◎ Have you heard the news? ◎ I've got some good/bad news for you. ◎ an interesting item of news in today's paper
- a description of a news event: story
The plane crash was the front-page story in all the newspapers. ◎ The official story is that he resigned because he wants to spend more time with his family.
- a written or spoken description of what a person has seen, heard or done: report
a report from one of our foreign correspondents ◎ an official report
- a printed report about a club or organization that is sent out regularly to keep people informed of its news: newsletter, bulletin
a monthly newsletter
※ people who report the news
- a person whose job is to collect, write or publish news: journalist; the work of a journalist: journalism (noun U)
- a person who writes about the news in a newspaper or reports it on the television or radio: reporter
- a reporter who writes about particular subjects or sends reports from a particular place: correspondent
our political/medical/New York correspondent
※ hearing and talking about the news
- when news becomes known, it breaks*
The news of the Prime Minister's resignation broke on Tuesday morning.
- when news which was secret becomes known, it gets* out, gets* about; when it is known, it is out
Don't let it get about! ◎ The news was already out.
- if you are the first to tell a person about sth important and usually unpleasant that has happened, you break* the news (to them)
Be sure to break the news to her gently!
- to discuss other people and their personal affairs: talk; what people say when they do this: talk (noun U)
The neighbours have been talking. ◎ There's talk that his business is going badly.
- news or information that people are talking about but that may not be true: rumour (noun C/U)
There's a rumour going round that she's leaving.
- if you are told about sth, you hear* about it
Did you hear about my accident?
- if you find out some news, for example from a newspaper, you see* it
I see that house prices are going up.
- if you learn sth from the television or radio news, you see* or hear* it on the news
I heard on the news that there's been a terrible plane crash.
- if you find out information or news after other people, you catch* up (on it)
Come over for a chat so we can catch up on each other's news.
- the way you receive a piece of news is the way you take* it
How did she take it when you told her the news? ◎ She took it very well.
- the sudden and very strong feeling of surprise that is caused by sth unpleasant (for example bad news): shock (noun C/U); verb: shock sb; adjective: shocking
Her husband's death came as a terrible shock to her. ◎ I was deeply shocked. ◎ shocking news
- something that causes great excitement, surprise or interest: a sensation; adjective: sensational
to cause a sensation ◎ a sensational story
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- information that you learn from a person who learnt it from somebody else is second-hand (adjective, adverb)
second-hand news
- to tell people sth that was officially a secret: leak sth; noun: leak
The story was leaked to the press. ◎ a series of leaks from a government department