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TIDINGS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Information about recent and important events
Example:
they awaited news of the outcome
Synonyms:
intelligence; news; tidings; word
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("tidings" is a kind of...):
info; information (a message received and understood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tidings"):
good word (good news)
latest (the most recent news or development)
Context examples:
Time passed on; and as the eldest son did not come back, and no tidings were heard of him, the second son set out, and the same thing happened to him.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
A letter came from Aunt Carrol, and Mrs. March's face was illuminated to such a degree when she read it that Jo and Beth, who were with her, demanded what the glad tidings were.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
My heart is heavy for my dear lord and for Aylward, and I know not how I may break the news to the Lady Mary and to the Lady Maude, if they have not yet had tidings of it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mrs. Bennet, through the assistance of servants, contrived to have the earliest tidings of it, that the period of anxiety and fretfulness on her side might be as long as it could.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Although in one instance the bearers of not good tidings, Mr. and Mrs. Weston's visit this morning was in another respect particularly opportune.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Anyhow, from India tidings of his death reached home, within ten years.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mr. Bertram, said she, I have tidings of my harp at last.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Then she went to the king, and told him the joyful tidings, and when the time was come she gave birth to a son, and the king was filled with gladness.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Both the sisters seemed struck: not shocked or appalled; the tidings appeared in their eyes rather momentous than afflicting.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Pondering over these heart-rending tidings, Catherine walked slowly upstairs.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
