different between news vs missive

English

Etymology

From Middle English newes, newys (“new things”), equivalent to new (noun) +? -s. Compare Saterland Frisian Näis (“news”), East Frisian näjs ("news"), West Frisian nijs (“news”), Dutch nieuws (“news”), German Low German Neeis (“new things; news”). Often erroneously said to be an acronym of "North, East, West, South" or "Noteworthy Events, Weather, Sports".

Pronunciation

• enPR: nyo?oz, no?oz, IPA^(key): /n(j)u?z/
• Homophones: gnus, nus (in some dialects)
• Rhymes: -u?z
• Hyphenation: news

Noun

news (uncountable)

1. New information of interest.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Alls Well that Ends Well, Act II, sc 3:

     Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's news for you: you have a new mistress.

   Is there any news about the storm?

   That was not much news in the press release.

2. Information about current events disseminated via media.

   Did you hear/read/see the latest news?

   The news is that a new leader will be elected in one month.

3. (computing, Internet) Posts published on newsgroups

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

news (third-person singular simple present newses, present participle newsing, simple past and past participle newsed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To report; to make known.
   • 1874, Robert Cowie, Shetland (page 157)

     This remark was newsed abroad; whereupon the loyal authorities of Lerwick immediately had the revolutionary skipper arrested, on a charge of high treason.

References

• News (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• news on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• sewn, snew, wens

French

Noun

news m (plural news)

1. news magazine or programme

Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

• nyouz

Etymology

From English news.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [njuz]

Noun

news

1. news, information

   Synonyms: nouvel, samachar

Polish

Etymology

From English news.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?us/

Noun

news m anim

1. news (new information of interest)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) newsowy

Further reading

• news in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• news in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

15th Century; from Medieval Latin missivus, from mittere (“to send”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?m?s?v/

Noun

missive (plural missives)

1. (formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo.
   • 2008, Claire Armistead, The Guardian, 25 Oct 2008:

     The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded privacy, of becoming vain and impetuously adopting children from other continents.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 71:

     "Curses throttle thee!" yelled Ahab. "Captain Mayhew, stand by now to receive it"; and taking the fatal missive from Starbuck's hands, he caught it in the slit of the pole, and reached it over towards the boat.

2. (in the plural, Scotland, law) Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.
3. (obsolete) One who is sent; a messenger.
   • c. 1606: Macbeth by Shakespeare

     Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the King, who all hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title these Weird Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail king that shalt be.’

Translations

Adjective

missive (not comparable)

1. Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.

   a letter missive

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ayliffe to this entry?)

2. (obsolete) Serving as a missile; intended to be thrown.
   • 1700, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia

     The missive weapons fly.

Related terms

• See mission for terms etymologically related to send

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “missive”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

French

Pronunciation

Noun

missive f (plural missives)

1. missive

Italian

Noun

missive f

1. plural of missiva