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rumor English

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What does rumor mean?
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rumor Noun

— A rumor is a story about somebody or something, that is told by other people, most of the time it is not true. There is a rumor going around that John's been fired. Is it true?

rumor Verb

— If you rumor, you gossip; you tell someone a rumor. It has been rumored that John's moving soon. Is this true?

rumor

— noun gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth — verb (= rumour) tell or spread rumors It was rumored that the next president would be a woman

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rumor English » English

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Topics rumor topics

What do people use rumor to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say Criticize

Gossip
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Evidentials

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Conjugation rumor conjugation

How do you conjugate rumor?

rumor · verb

Examples rumor examples

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Simple sentences

There is a rumor that she got married.
The rumor that she's getting married is spreading around town.
Tom didn't believe the rumor about Mary and John.
It was only a rumor.
Can the rumor be true?
Mayuko denied the rumor.
Almost all the students believed the rumor.
Almost everyone believed the rumor.
Ben spread a rumor about me out of malice.
The rumor turned out to be false.
I wonder who started that rumor.
Nobody will believe that rumor.
I don't know how such a rumor got about.
That's a completely unfounded rumor.
It proved the truth of the rumor.
The vague rumor proved to be false.
There is a rumor that gold has been found in the valley.
The rumor turned out false.
The rumor turned out true.
The rumor soon went about.
It was not long before the rumor died out.
They are always believing a groundless rumor.
The rumor is going around that the actress is going to get a divorce.
The rumor cannot be true.
The rumor is believed to be true.

Movie subtitles

The rumor of Vandeuvres's suicide has spread throughout Paris.
So you see how silly that rumor is.
Rumors? Since when is a breach-of-promise case a rumor?
Well, that takes it out of the rumor class, doesn't it?
Doctors assigned the plague a medical name, but a persistent rumor circulated among the people that a vampire was the cause of the scourge.
Rumor says that Cleopatra has fled to Syria.
There's a well-founded rumor. that it'll be twins for Mrs. Dibble.
It's just another rumor.
I heard a rumor those German couriers were carrying letters of transit.
I've heard that rumor too.
They say this is an offensive of some size, but. it's only a rumor.
But there's a rumor that they put fellas on Devil's Island. for doing what you're doing.
Go home! If I find the person who started the rumor we have a crazy man here, I'll lock him up.
George, there is a rumor around town that you've closed your doors. Is that true?
If rumor is true, Barbara is quite a girl.
A rumor spread by liars.
And rumor hath it I have a heavy hand for insolence.
I heard some rumor that Captain Thorndike is visiting our country.
Last year there was a crazy guy, started a murder rumor.
I wonder who started the ridiculous rumor that this was a civilized world. Well, since it's the only world we have to live in, I suppose we have to make the best of it.
George, there is a rumor around town that you've closed your doors.
There is rumor they are going to set up concentration camp at Longchamp.
Must be some stupid rumor.
Then I get the rumor from my contact at the embassy. that the princess isn't sick at all and she's out on the town.
But if the Master knows, he'll go crazy. After Special Customer Service's Tae Yang left Kingdom's Master Joo, there's a huge rumor that he's a bit out of his mind.
That's the rumor.
The rumor of my misfortune soon spread and. by 5:00, the whole town was there.
Whitey, if the faintest rumor of this ever leaks out.
Rumor has it.
Why? There may be nothing to it, but a rumor has come to me that Curly Bill might try a holdup.
If that rumor is right and Rokai's also an executive at Yamaoka Weaving that's a big problem.
But I just heard the rumor.
But if the rumor is true, I can't forgive him.
Well, this is just an idle rumor, I'm sure.
This is no idle rumor.
Rumor has it the village is plague striken.

News and current affairs

The harder it becomes to discern any rationality in the Bush administration's actions, the louder the rumor mill grinds.
According to one rumor, as mayor of Tehran, Ahmadinejad drew up a new city plan for the Imam's return.
In recent weeks, Ahmadinejad's aides have denied another rumor that he ordered his cabinet to write a pact of loyalty with the 12th Imam and throw it down a well near the holy city of Qom, where some believe the Imam is hiding.
The cost is yet another generation of Middle Eastern youth who will believe the worst about the US, no matter how far-fetched the rumor or extreme the claim.
Rumor has it that the ECB is poised to adjust its approach - and soon.
Rumor has it the couple has set February 8 or 9 for the wedding. Others say that Sarkozy has already outsmarted the media by secretly marrying in the Elysee Palace, even as he was dodging wedding questions.
During that period, Karadzic spread a completely false rumor that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and I had made a deal that, with Karadzic's disappearance from public view, NATO would not seek his arrest.
Maduro himself invoked the rumor that the Israelis poisoned former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.

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