Newsworthy

  

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Newsworthy

Definition: Newsworthy

Newsworthy

Adjective

1. Sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

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Crosswords: Newsworthy

English words defined with "newsworthy": news event, news photography. (references)
Specialty definitions using "newsworthy": photographer, news, PHOTOJOURNALIST. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Newsworthy

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Newsworthy Affair (Harlequin Temptation, 289) (reference)

  • Take the Mystery Out of Media: Make Your Publicity Newsworthy (reference)

  • X-Rated Media Bloopers and Messups: A Choice Collection of Sexy Newsworthy Boners (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Newsworthy

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Newsworthy

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Newsworthy

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%7139,674

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Newsworthy

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "newsworthy": un-newsworthy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Newsworthy

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

newsworthy

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Newsworthy

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

   

Portuguese

  

vendedor de jornais (newsagent, newsboy, newshawk, newsman, paper cutter), merece ser publicado. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vredan da se objavi. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

noticioso, de interés periodístico. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

haber olabilir, haber değeri olan, güncel (actual, live, living, timely, topical, up to date), aktüel (actual, contemporary, topical, up to date). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Newsworthy

Derivations

Words ending with "newsworthy": unnewsworthy. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Newsworthy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nosworthy, Nuewirth. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Newsworthy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "newsworthy" (pronounced nuw"zwer'thē)
5-z w er' th ēpraiseworthy.
4-w er' th ēairworthy, creditworthy, noteworthy, trustworthy, untrustworthy.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Newsworthy

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Newsworthy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 65 77 73 77 6F 72 74 68 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100101 01110111 01110011 01110111 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101000 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#101 &#119 &#115 &#119 &#111 &#114 &#116 &#104 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0077 0073 0077 006F 0072 0074 0068 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

48718985898184867491

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INDEX

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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