Gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth.
1 Eddie probably started this particular rumour , as a way of saying sorry.
2 Whether this rumour will turn into fact still remains to be seen.
3 Disappeared completely, although I heard a rumour they'd joined Crassus' expeditionary force.'
4 Once the CCTV images went public, the rumour mill went into overdrive.
5 Since last week, the rumour mill has once again gone into overdrive.
6 The rumour diminished to just a soft mumbling; and then nothing more.
7 Marvels had happened in the temple of Hathor, that was the rumour .
8 This wasn't the first time I'd come across the rumour about deferrals.
9 Of this particular rumour our young friend Dolly Longestaffe was the parent.
10 It was probably me that started that rumour . ' He grinned at me.
11 Nothing of the rumour had as yet been whispered in royal palaces.
12 Perhaps it was the rumour of suicide that they could not accept.
13 A rumour was in some way started that the king was dead.
14 We live in a terrible time, of war and rumour of war.
15 So rumour had it; and to unsophisticated Paul rumour was gospel truth.
16 Both BSkyB and Murdoch's News Corp declined to comment on the rumour .
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