different between eyewitness vs reportage

English

Alternative forms

• eye-witness
• eye witness

Etymology

eye +? witness

Noun

eyewitness (plural eyewitnesses)

1. Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it. [from 16th c.]

Translations

Verb

eyewitness (third-person singular simple present eyewitnesses, present participle eyewitnessing, simple past and past participle eyewitnessed)

1. To be present at an event, and see it

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French reportage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p??(?)t?d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Noun

reportage (countable and uncountable, plural reportages)

1. The reporting of news, especially by an eyewitness.
2. News or information that has been reported; media coverage of a topic or event.
3. Information supplied in a report.

Translations

Anagrams

• porterage

Danish

Etymology

From French reportage.

Noun

reportage c (singular definite reportagen, plural indefinite reportager)

1. (journalism) (the reporting of news)

Inflection

Related terms

• reporter
• reportere

See also

• rapport

French

Etymology

From reporter +? -age.

Noun

reportage m (plural reportages)

1. reportage

Descendants

Further reading

• “reportage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• protègera, protégera

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French reportage.

Noun

reportage m (invariable)

1. report
2. reportage
3. coverage (of news etc)