Read full poem →2 Not warp'd by passion, awed by rumour,
Not grave through pride, or gay through folly,
Dictionary Entry
A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth.
In a Sentence
“There's a rumor going round that he's going to get married.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. rumourspread rumourrumour falserumour mere
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Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “rumour”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Cover thy lips and eyelids, let thine ears
Be filled with rumour of people sorrowing;
Make thee soft raiment out of woven sighs
Read full poem →The likeness of them shall not alter
For all the rumour of periods,
The stars and seasons that come after,
Read full poem →As circulates in some great city crowd
A rumour changeful, vague, importunate, and loud,
From no determined centre, or of fact
Read full poem →Stabbed a National Guard on the very Piazza Colonna:
History, Rumour of Rumours, I leave to thee to determine!
But I am thankful to say the government seems to have strength to
Read full poem →Where nothing is examined, weigh'd,
But as 'tis rumour'd, so believed;
Where every freedom is betray'd,
Read full poem →Why should we defer our joys?
Fame and rumour are but toys.
Cannot we delude the eyes
Read full poem →What rumour'd heavens are these
Which not a poet sings,
Read full poem →The air that rings with larks, the grave
And distant rumour of the wave,
The solitary sailing skiff,
Read full poem →Eager to catch my words,
Eager to spread them with rumour;
To set upon them his change