Synonyms for grapevine
ˈgreɪpˌvaɪngrapevine

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1. grapevinenoun

   An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip.

   I heard through the grapevine that Jim will be leaving soon.

   Synonyms:
   bush telegraph, rumor mill, jungle telegraph

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. grapevine, pipeline, word of mouthnoun

   gossip spread by spoken communication

   "the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth"

   Synonyms:
   grape, word of mouth, line, grape vine, pipeline

2. grape, grapevine, grape vinenoun

   any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries

   Synonyms:
   grape, grape vine, word of mouth, grapeshot, pipeline

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1. List of paraphrases for "grapevine":

   vine, grape

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How to use grapevine in a sentence?

1. Lynda Carter:

   Who you are going to tell except your girlfriends and your circle of friends? You’d say or hear, ‘Stay away from that guy.’ ‘Watch out for this casting director.’ And so you would hear it from other people, other people would hear it from other people. ‘Watch out for so and so.’ That’s how you protected yourself: through the grapevine.

2. Daniel Baron:

   We now know the full genome of the grapevine, and we can actually see which genes are turned on and off by inducing water stress at different phases in the growth cycle of the plant, we’ve developed a team of people who really believe in the scientific method and use it every day, so our knowledge base just keeps increasing.

3. Charles Faddis:

   We heard through the grapevine that these things were being done.

4. Stetson Clark:

   Because of his extreme views, I ask that a full review of Mr. Whitfield's tenure in Grapevine Colleyville Independent School District be examined and that his contract be terminated effective immediately.

5. Lakshheish M Patel:

   Reliance share is most likely to fall within the last 1 hour today and may close around Rs.2450 as per market grapevine. So obviously all shares mostly Govt share likeSAIL, NALCO, BOI, GAIL. BHEL. IRCON ONGC ETC will fall more panicingly. Retail investors have this drama everyday that opening in green and closing market in red