HEARSAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hearsay mean? 

• HEARSAY (noun)
  The noun HEARSAY has 1 sense:

1. gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

  Familiarity information: HEARSAY used as a noun is very rare.

• HEARSAY (adjective)
  The adjective HEARSAY has 1 sense:

1. heard through another rather than directly

  Familiarity information: HEARSAY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEARSAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

hearsay; rumor; rumour

Hypernyms ("hearsay" is a kind of...):

comment; gossip; scuttlebutt (a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people)

• HEARSAY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Heard through another rather than directly

Context example:

hearsay information

Similar:

indirect (extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action)