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# hearsay

«hearsay» in Mova's school dictionary: **Things you have heard from other people but do not know…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (hearsay — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Things you have heard from other people but do not know are true; rumour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearsay/#m1)

2) (law) Evidence in court about what someone else said, not what the witness saw themselves; it is often not allowed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearsay/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it warns that a story is gossip; in law and history lessons it is weak evidence. Phrases: it's just hearsay, based on hearsay, hearsay evidence.

### examples

- That's just hearsay, nobody actually saw it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearsay/#x1)
- You shouldn't believe hearsay about people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearsay/#x2)
- The judge said the statement was hearsay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearsay/#x3)
- The story spread round school by hearsay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearsay/#x4)
- Is this a fact or just hearsay? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearsay/#x5)
- Good journalists check facts instead of printing hearsay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearsay/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. From hear + say. Checking sources is the way to tell fact from hearsay.

### In the corpora

- [The first question is who says it; something heard from someone who heard it from someone else is called hearsay.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/35-how-to-check-who-how-who-else/5/)
- ["My uncle works there" in a comment is hearsay: a claim nobody can check.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hearsay» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hearsay/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.