Definition of Rumor

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Definition of Rumor

Rumor

A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety.

A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth; -- in this sense often personified.

A prolonged, indistinct noise.

To report by rumor; to tell.

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Rumor Quotations

Death is a distant rumor to the young.
Andy Rooney

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley

It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
Calvin Klein

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
Alvin Adams

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
Tallulah Bankhead

There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.
Merle Haggard

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.
David Carradine

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
Jeanette Winterson

The nature of rumor is known to all.
Tertullian

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?
Amy Grant

Rumor Translations

rumor in Danish is rygte
rumor in Dutch is gerucht, faam, befaamdheid, mare
rumor in Italian is vociferare
rumor in Latin is fama, ventus, opinio, rumor
rumor in Portuguese is boato
rumor in Spanish is hambre

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