tidings
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
1Words Nearby tidings
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How to use tidings in a sentence
Two new books bulge with the kind of grave tidings that were tempting Pipher to despair.
Mark Hertsgaard Analyzes the Psychology of Climate-Change Activism | Mark Hertsgaard | July 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNot to be the bearer of ill tidings, Herman, but you are close to the last person in America still wondering this.
Was Herman Cain’s High-Risk Campaign Fueled by Testosterone? | Michelle Cottle | November 30, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThe drumbeat of bad tidings began Tuesday, with yet more depressing news about the housing market.
The Father had been in sore straits of mind, as month after month had passed without tidings of his "blessed child."
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonIn choosing Massna to carry to Paris the tidings of peace, it was not only his prestige and renown which influenced Bonaparte.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
Cursed be the man that brought the tidings to my father, saying: A man child is born to thee: and made him greatly rejoice.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousWhen the tidings reached him of the death of Madame Roland, he fell to the ground as if struck by lightning.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottThe tidings of the arrest and imprisonment of Madame Roland soon reached the ears of her unfortunate husband in his retreat.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. Abbott
British Dictionary definitions for tidings
/ (ˈtaɪdɪŋz) /
information or news
Origin of tidings
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