Rumoured

Definition

rumour ( US rumor ) /'ru:mǝ(r)/ n (က) [C] ေကာလာဟလ။ ေဈးစကား။ The rumour began with an anonymous telephone call to a newspaper. ❍ There's a nasty rumour going round/circulating/spreading about your father. ❍ Oh yes, I did hear a vague rumour that he was leaving. ❍ There are strong/persistent rumours of an impending merger. (ခ) [U] ေကာလာဟလ။ ေဈးစကား။ Many of the stories were based on rumour and gossip. ❍ Rumour has it (ie People say) that he was murdered. ❏ rumoured ( US rumored ) adj သတင္းေျပးလ်က္ ရိွ[ေသာ]။ ေကာလာဟလျဖစ္ေန[ေသာ]။ They bought the house at a rumoured price of £600,000. ❍ It's widely rumoured that she's going to resign. ❍ She is rumoured to be on the point of resigning.

Examples

1. [rumour about] : He’d heard rumours about some big financial deal.
2. [rumour of] : Now there are rumours of wedding plans.
3. [rumour that] : He denied rumours that staff would lose their jobs.
4. [rumour has it that] : Rumour has it that he’s seriously ill.
5. [circulate/spread rumours] : A student had been spreading rumours about the teachers.
6. [rumours are flying] : Rumours are flying about a merger between the media giants.