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Definition: Newsworthy |
NewsworthyAdjective1. Sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Newsworthy |
| English words defined with "newsworthy": news event, news photography. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "newsworthy": photographer, news, PHOTOJOURNALIST. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Bill Hicks | How about a positive LSD story, that would be newsworthy. Don't you think? Anybody think that? Just once, to hear a positive LSD story. "Today, a young man on acid, realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves... here's Tom with the weather." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | As in the U.S., it is not advisable to call a press conference unless something newsworthy is to be announced. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Botswana | When opposition politicians complained about this, the Government initially countered that the activities of ministers and other government figures were inherently more newsworthy and therefore deserving of more coverage. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Newsworthy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Newsworthy" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 71 | 39,674 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "newsworthy": un-newsworthy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
newsworthy | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "newsworthy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ذو أهمية إخبارية, أخبار هامة (breaking news), أخبار تستحق النشر, أخبار ذات أهمية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stojící za zprávu v novinách. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قابل توجه عامه برای درج درروزنامه , قابل انتشار, جالب وبموقع . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | intérêt médiatique, information d'importance, information de qualité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | berichtenswert, aktuell (actual, actually, current, currently, latest, live, present, present-day, prevailing, relevant, timely, topical, topically, up, up to date, up-to-date). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άξιοσ δημοσίευσησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ראוי לפרסום. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hírértékű, újságban közlésre alkalmas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | interessante (interesting, juicy, readable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | naightoil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ewsworthynay vendedor de jornais (newsagent, newsboy, newshawk, newsman, paper cutter), merece ser publicado. (various references) vredan da se objavi. (various references) noticioso, de interés periodístico. (various references) haber olabilir, haber değeri olan, güncel (actual, live, living, timely, topical, up to date), aktüel (actual, contemporary, topical, up to date). (various references) цікавий (amusing, curious, entertaining, interesting, nosey, nosy, nutty, pry, visitable), гідний висвітлення у пресі, важливий (big, consequential, considerable, earnest, grand, grave, important, influential, interesting, momentous, purposeful, serious, weighty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "newsworthy": unnewsworthy. (additional references) | |
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"Newsworthy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nosworthy, Nuewirth. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "newsworthy" (pronounced nuw"zwer'thē) |
| 5 | -z w er' th ē | praiseworthy. |
| 4 | -w er' th ē | airworthy, creditworthy, noteworthy, trustworthy, untrustworthy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-n-o-r-s-t-w-w-y" | |
-3 letters: honesty, hornets, reshown, rhytons, shorten, showery, thrones. | |
-4 letters: ethnos, henrys, herons, honers, honest, honeys, hornet, horsey, horste, nestor, norths, nosher, noters, nother, others, owners, oyster, reshot, reshow, resown, rhyton, rowens, rowths, senhor, sentry, shorty, shower, stoner, stoney, storey, strewn, strown, tenors, tensor, theory, thorns, thorny, throes, throne, thrown, throws, thyrse, toners, towers, towery, toyers, trones, twyers, whores, whorts, worsen, worset, worths, worthy, wowser, wryest. | |
-5 letters: enows, entry, ethos, henry, hents, herns, heron, heros, hoers, honer, hones, honey, horns, horny, horse, horst, horsy, hosen, howes, hyson, nerts, newsy, newts, north, nosey, noter, notes, nowts, onery, onset, other, owner, owsen, oyers, rents, resow, rewon, roset, rotes, rowen, rowth, ryots, senor, serow, seton, shent, shewn, shoer, shone, shore, shorn, short, shote, shown, showy, shrew, shyer, snore, snort, snowy, sower, steno, stern, stone, stony, store, story, strew, strow, stroy, swore, sworn, synth, syren, tenor, terns, thens, thews, thewy, thorn, those, threw, throe, throw, toner, tones, toney, tores, torse, tower, towns, towny, toyer, trews, treys, trone, trows, troys, twyer, tyers, tynes, tyres, tyros, whens, whets, whews, wheys, whore, whort, whose, wonts, worse, worst, worth, worts, wrens, wrest, wrote, wroth, wytes, yores, yowes. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-n-o-r-s-t-w-w-y" | |
+2 letters: unnewsworthy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 77 73 77 6F 72 74 68 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . .--. ... .--. --- .-. - .... -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110111 01110011 01110111 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e w s w o r t h y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0077 0073 0077 006F 0072 0074 0068 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48718985898184867491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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