different between hearsay vs slander

English

Etymology

From Middle English hyere-zigginge (1340), here sey (ca. 1438), from the phrase heren seien (“to hear [people] say”). Compare equally old Middle High German hœrsagen (14th c.), whence modern Hörensagen.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hear?say

Noun

hearsay (usually uncountable, plural hearsays)

1. Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.
2. (law) Evidence based on the reports of others, which is normally inadmissible because it was not made under oath, rather than on personal knowledge.
3. (law) An out-of-court statement offered in court for the truth of the matter asserted, which is normally inadmissible because it is not subject to cross-examination unless the hearsay statement falls under one of a number of exceptions.

Derived terms

• double hearsay

Synonyms

• common talk
• gossip
• report
• rumor

Translations

See also

• as they say
• hear
• hear tell
• so they say
• you know what they say

Further reading

• hearsay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• hearsay in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• slandre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English slaundre, sclaundre, from Old French esclandre, from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“stumbling block, temptation”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (skándalon, “scandal”). Doublet of scandal.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sl??nd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?slænd?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /sl??nd?/

Noun

slander (countable and uncountable, plural slanders)

1. A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:slander

Antonyms

• glorification (falsely praising statement)

Translations

Verb

slander (third-person singular simple present slanders, present participle slandering, simple past and past participle slandered)

1. To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of.

Synonyms

• defame
• libel (always in writing)
• See also Thesaurus:defame

Antonyms

• glorify (baselessly speak well of)

Translations

See also

• defamation

Anagrams

• Landers, Lenards, Nadlers, Randles, Sandler, darnels, enlards, landers, relands, slandre, snarled