tidings

[ tahy-dingz ]

/ ˈtaɪ dɪŋz /

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noun (sometimes used with a singular verb)

news, information, or intelligence: Cards with joyful holiday tidings filled the fireplace mantel.The soldiers eagerly opened the letters, devouring the tidings from home.

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Origin of tidings

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

Words nearby tidings

tides, tide table, tidewaiter, tidewater, tideway, tidings, tidy, tidytips, tie, tie-and-dye, tieback

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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.
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Not to be the bearer of ill tidings, Herman, but you are close to the last person in America still wondering this.
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The drumbeat of bad tidings began Tuesday, with yet more depressing news about the housing market.
The U.S. Economy's Bad News Deluge|Gary Rivlin|June 6, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The Father had been in sore straits of mind, as month after month had passed without tidings of his "blessed child."
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson

In 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|Various
When 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. Abbott
The 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

tidings

/ (ˈtaɪdɪŋz) /

pl n

information or news

Word Origin for tidings

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

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