0 an unofficial interesting story or piece of news that might be true or invented, and quickly spreads from person to person: --
1 an unofficial, interesting story or piece of news that might be true or invented, and that is communicated quickly from person to person: --
[ C ] Rumors about her are circulating at school.
We certainly have to dispel the rumor that functional languages are for teaching compilers, interpreters, and type systems.
As evidenced by the rumors that spread throughout groups of ex-soldiers, many askaris saw membership as the key to maintaining elite status.
In many cases, in fact, popular rumors embodied connections between these different, overlapping state manipulations of local ecologies.
The rest of the population sensed the documents' content through leaks and rumors and derived a practical lesson.
By that more sophisticated standard, the adaptationist research program has done quite well in recent decades, despite premature rumors of its untimely demise.
These rumors are absurd and nonsensical, as the government has no intention whatsoever of baptizing us.
Contemporary accounts speak frequently of wild rumors and inexplicable speculations which seem to have pervaded this incident.
It can be positive (scotch a rumor) or negative (scotch their fun).
