Synonyms for rumor
ru·mor

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1. rumornoun

   Synonyms:
   talk, gossip, tittle-tattle, hearsay

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1. rumor

   Account carries the idea of a commercial summary. A statement is definite, confined to essentials and properly to matters within the personal knowledge of the one who states them; as, an ante-mortem statement. A narrative is a somewhat extended and embellished account of events in order of time, ordinarily with a view to please or entertain. A description gives especial scope to the pictorial element. A report (Latin re, back, and porto, bring), as its etymology implies, is something brought back, as by one sent to obtain information, and may be concise and formal or highly descriptive and dramatic. Compare ALLEGORY; HISTORY; RECORD.

   Synonyms:
   account, description, narration, narrative, recital, record, rehearsal, relation, report, statement, story, tale

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1. rumor

   Synonyms:
   report, repute, hearsay, publication, bruit

   Antonyms:
   authentication, verification, proof, evidence, notoriety

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. rumor, rumour, hearsayverb

   gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

   Synonyms:
   hearsay, rumour

2. rumor, rumour, bruitverb

   tell or spread rumors

   "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman"

   Synonyms:
   rumour, bruit

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1. rumornoun

   Synonyms:
   report, talk, bruit, fame, gossip, hearsay, news, tidings, town talk

2. rumorverb

   Synonyms:
   report, tell, bruit, spread abroad, noise abroad

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1. rumornoun

   Synonyms:
   hearsay, gossip, bruit, on dit

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1. List of paraphrases for "rumor":

   rumour, gossip, hearsay

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1. Richard Armour:

   A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

2. Marc Maron:

   And I would ask Comedian Louis . about it. I would say, ‘ This story about you forcing these women to watch you jerk off, what is that, is that true ? ’ Comedian Louis . goes, ‘ No, it’s not true. It’s not real. It’s a rumor. ’ And I would say, ‘ Well, are you going to address it somehow ? Handle it ? Get out from under it whenever it shows up ? ’ ‘ Comedian Louis . ca n’t, I ca n’t do that. I ca n’t give it life, give it air. ’ That was the conversation.

3. Mike Pompeo:

   Do not start that rumor. You've got media in the back, there is no upside to that.

4. Joe Biden:

   I may very well talk to her about that, yeah, there's word and rumor that the FBI and others were involved, CIA were involved, with United Kingdom, having to do with the Russian hoax. And I may very well talk to her about that, yes.

5. Anthony Solomon:

   They faced tribal warfare and rogue villagers in Papua New Guinea who spread a rumor that the teams were vampires, they worked in Ethiopia's Afar region, one of the most hostile territories in the world in which to conduct community-based research, amid sandstorms, temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius and deadly venomous spiders.