tidings
pronunciation
How to pronounce tidings in British English:
UK [ˈtaɪdɪŋz]
How to pronounce tidings in American English:
US [ˈtaɪdɪŋz]
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- Noun:
- new information about specific and timely events
Word Origin
- tidings
- tidings: [OE] Tidings is etymologically ‘that which happens’. It is closely related to English tide, in the sense ‘happen’ (as in betide). It was adapted from Old Norse títhendi ‘happenings, events, news’, a derivative of the adjective títhr ‘happening’. A similar semantic development from ‘events’ to ‘news of events’ lies behind the related German zeitung ‘newspaper’.
- tidings (n.)
- "announcement of an event," c. 1200, from late Old English tidung "event, occurrence, piece of news," verbal noun from Old English tidan "to happen," or in part from Old Norse tiðendi (plural) "events, news," from tiðr (adj.) "occurring," from PIE *di-ti- (see tide (n.)). Similar formation in Norwegian tidende "tidings, news," Dutch tijding, German Zeitung "newspaper."
Synonym
Example
- 1. Knowing this , sensible juniors will avoid expressing criticism or grim tidings if at all possible .
- 2. Good news from iran is rare , and the imf is seldom a font of happy tidings about anything .
- 3. We have been told by that usual bringer of bad tidings , george soros , that the " economic freefall " has stopped .
- 4. The world could do with some glad tidings at the moment , to cope with a global economic crisis and turmoil in the middle east .
- 5. And in harfang you may or may not hear tidings of the city ruinous , but certainly you shall find good lodgings and merry hosts .