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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Old News Stale news. Hawker's (or piper's) news. "Le secret de polichinelle." A pinch for old news. A schoolboy's punishment to one of his mates for telling as news what is well known. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
News | Old story, old news, stale news, stale story; chestnut. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | However, as these magazines are monthly and bimonthly, most of their articles are old news by the time they reach their readership. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
old news | 32 |
old news article | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "OLD NEWS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 旧聞 . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | きゅうぶ". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | olday ewsnay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-n-o-s-w" | |
-1 letter: dowels, endows, lodens, slowed, snowed. | |
-2 letters: doles, dowel, downs, dowse, endow, enols, enows, lends, lenos, loden, lodes, lowed, lowes, lowse, nodes, noels, nosed, olden, owned, owsen, soled, sonde, sowed, welds, wends, wolds. | |
-3 letters: dels, dens, dews, does, dole, dols, done, dons, dose, down, dows, elds, ends, enol, enow, eons, lend, leno, lens, lewd. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-n-o-s-w" | |
+1 letter: letdowns. | |
+2 letters: closedown, downscale, downslide, downslope, meltdowns, snowfield, snowslide, woundless. | |
+3 letters: closedowns, downscaled, downscales, downslides, knowledges, lancewoods, landowners, lowlanders, snowballed, snowfields, snowplowed, snowslides, underflows, underwools, windowless. | |
+4 letters: brownfields, candlewoods, disboweling, downhillers, groundswell, meadowlands, mindblowers, needleworks, stonewalled, thistledown, underworlds, windflowers, wonderlands, woodlanders, worldliness. | |
+5 letters: acknowledges, bowdlerising, candlepowers, cowardliness, disallowance, disbowelling, groundswells, hornswoggled, misknowledge, netherworlds, thistledowns, towardliness, wordlessness. | |
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| 1. Quotations: Non-fiction 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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