rumourとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• * (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːmə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːmɚ/
• 韻: -uːmə(ɹ)

名詞

rumour (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 rumours)

1. Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland spelling of rumor
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, published October 1922, OCLC 2297483:

     Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[1]:

     There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 26:

     Dame Rumour outstrides me yet again.

   • 1969, Peter Vansittart, Pastimes of a Red Summer: A Novel‎^[2], Owen, →ISBN, LCCN 77434141, OCLC 1072259774, page 140:

     I myself gave support to the summoning of the Estates General ... as merely mistaken . Similarly it might be held that Paradise originated in a rumour invented in hell to make society the more interesting . ' ' We need a saviour .

2. (obsolete) A prolonged, indistinct noise.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv], page 18:

     Prithee, listen well; / I heard a bustling rumour like a fray, / And the wind brings it from the Capitol.

動詞

rumour (三人称単数 現在形 rumours, 現在分詞 rumouring, 過去形および過去分詞形 rumoured)

1. Commonwealth of Nations standard spelling of rumor.
   • 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Drastic cuts in Scotland?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 644:

     Two of the four main routes over the Border were rumoured to be threatened with withdrawal of, or heavy cuts in, passenger services.