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# rumour

«rumour» in Mova's school dictionary: **a story or piece of news that people pass from one to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a rumour, rumours); verb (be rumoured)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A rumour is a story or piece of news that people pass from one to another, which may not be true and has not been checked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumour/#m1)

2) To be rumoured means people say it but nobody is sure: It is rumoured that school will close. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumour/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and lessons on friendship and online safety, rumours can hurt people's feelings and spread fast; a good rule is to check if it is true, kind and necessary before passing it on. In stories, rumours often cause trouble or misunderstandings. Phrases: spread a rumour, start a rumour, there is a rumour that, just a rumour.

### examples

- There is a rumour that we have a new teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumour/#x1)
- Do not spread rumours about other people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumour/#x2)
- It was only a rumour, it was not true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumour/#x3)
- Who started that rumour? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumour/#x4)
- The rumour spread around the playground by lunchtime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumour/#x5)
- Rumours can be very hurtful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumour/#x6)
- It is rumoured that the old house is haunted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumour/#x7)
- Check the facts before you believe a rumour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumour/#x8)
- Then, one day, a rumour reached the king that a large army was marching against him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rumour/#x9)

### note

British, Irish, Australian, NZ and Canadian spelling: rumour; American spelling: rumor. Countable. A rumour is not the same as a lie: it may be true or false, but nobody has checked it. Spreading untrue rumours can be a form of bullying.

### In the corpora

- [Rumours about classmates are cruel, especially about their bodies; you can stop one by not passing it on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/8/)
- ["I'm just saying what I heard" and "I only told one person" are still spreading a rumour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/20/)
- [Separating facts, reports and guesses keeps you from spreading rumours as facts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/11/)
- [A rumour is a story passed around without proof; it is not a fact just because many people repeat it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/13/)
- [Spreading rumours and sending mean messages online are forms of bullying.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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