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

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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. Charlie Sheen:

   Charlie Sheen said Charlie Sheen found out Charlie Sheen was HIV positive about four years ago. Charlie Sheen symptoms began with crushing headaches. I thought I had a brain tumor, Charlie Sheen recalled. I thought it was over. The star said Charlie Sheen was coming forward with the truth because of the rumors in the press surrounding Charlie Sheen health. I have to put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks and of sub-truths and very harmful and mercurial stories that are about me, that threaten the health of so many others that couldn't be further from the truth. Charlie Sheen said the most hurtful rumor Charlie Sheen read claimed Charlie Sheen intentionally transmitted the disease to Charlie Sheen partners. That’s as far from the truth as anything can be, Charlie Sheen said. Drug and alcohol use have marred Sheen's personal and professional life in recent years. Charlie Sheen was kicked off CBS' Two and a Half Men in 2011 after an explosive meltdown that included calling the show's producer a contaminated little maggot. Charlie Sheen escapades have also included the revelation that Charlie Sheen spent more than $ 50,000 as a client of Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss' prostitution ring. You can only hear ‘ winning ’ in the streets so many times, i am approaching a time of more of a philanthropic culture in my life.

2. Richard Armour:

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

3. Danielle Outlaw:

   It’s a rumor that’s just out there and it’s wild and it’s out of control, i appreciate the honorable mention, and it’s quite flattering quite frankly.

4. Ed Keon:

   My guess is, the rally we've seen this week is probably 'buy on the rumor' and that if they do vote to remain I wouldn't expect to see much more in the way of upside.

5. Detroit Police Chief James Craig:

   I appreciate our friends in the media for really dispelling a horrible rumor that was circulating across the city that there was a serial killer and that he had dumped five bodies in dumpsters across the city, that was absolutely false, you knew it was false and we only ask that if you didn't hear it from the Detroit Police Department, it's probably not so.