0 a fact that a lot of people are talking about although they do not know if it is true -- dedikodu, söylenti, şayia
to spread rumours
to deny rumours
[ + (that) ] I heard a rumour that you were leaving.
1 If a fact is rumoured, people are talking about it although they do not know if it is true. -- dedikodu çıkarmak; asılsız bir şeyi yaymak; söylenti çıkarmak; yayılmak; dilden dile/kulaktan kulağa ulaşmak
[ + (that) ] It's rumoured that the company director is about to resign.
[ + to do sth ] The company is rumoured to be in financial difficulty.
I plan to address the political uses of gossip and rumour in the eighteenth century at greater length elsewhere.
We have seen how rumours about the general strike persisted right from the middle of 1920 to 1921.
Rather, the rumours of bloodsuckers indicate a flexible ' truth ' that is negotiated through talking, since hearsay is a kind of truth when people believe it.
Within these contexts, the culture wars should strongly influence mass political behaviour; outside of them, such an effect should be largely a rumour.
These rumours circulating in trusted family circles carry a weight that official declarations lack, wherever they come from.
First, there was the ' hard news ' of the war : troop movements, casualties, rumours of a peace settlement.
But already from that singular point of view relations, rumours and pretences are quite complex.
Everyone in the world is spreading rumours to get him evicted.
