tidings

[ tahy-dingz ]
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noun(sometimes used with a singular verb)
  1. news, information, or intelligence: Cards with joyful holiday tidings filled the fireplace mantel.The soldiers eagerly opened the letters, devouring the tidings from home.

Origin of tidings

1
First recorded before 1100; Middle English; Old English tīdung “announcement, news item”; cognate with Dutch tijding, German Zeitung “newspaper, news”; akin to Old Norse tīthindi “news, events”; see origin at tide2, -ing1

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How to use tidings in a sentence

  • Cursed be the man that brought the tidings to my father, saying: A man child is born to thee: and made him greatly rejoice.

  • When the tidings reached him of the death of Madame Roland, he fell to the ground as if struck by lightning.

  • The tidings of the arrest and imprisonment of Madame Roland soon reached the ears of her unfortunate husband in his retreat.

British Dictionary definitions for tidings

tidings

/ (ˈtaɪdɪŋz) /


pl n
  1. information or news

Origin of tidings

1
Old English tīdung; related to Middle Low German tīdinge information, Old Norse tidhendi events; see tide ²

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