📚 Rumour, noun.

🔉 /ˈruːmə(r)/ 🇬🇧 /ˈruːmər/ 🇺🇸

❓ Definition (countable, uncountable • US English rumor): A piece of information, or a story, that people talk about, but that may not be true.

❗️ Examples:

1. To start/spread a rumour.
2. (rumour of something) There are widespread rumours of job losses.
3. (rumour about something) Some malicious rumours are circulating about his past.
4. (rumour that…) I heard a rumour that they are getting married.
5. Many of the stories are based on rumour.
6. Rumour has it (= people say) that he was murdered.
7. I thought she was leaving the company, but perhaps it may be just a rumour.
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