Word Meanings - TIDINGS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news. I shall make my master glad with these tidings. Shak. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. Note: Although tidings is

Additional info about word: TIDINGS

Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news. I shall make my master glad with these tidings. Shak. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. Note: Although tidings is plural in form, it has been used also as a singular. By Shakespeare it was used indiscriminately as a singular or plural. Now near the tidings of our comfort is. Shak. Tidings to the contrary Are brought your eyes. Shak. Syn. -- News; advice; information; intelligence. -- Tidings, News. The term news denotes recent intelligence from any quarter; the term tidings denotes intelligence expected from a particular quarter, showing what has there betided. We may be indifferent as to news, but are always more or less interested in tidings. We read the news daily; we wait for tidings respecting an absent friend or an impending battle. We may be curious to hear the news; we are always anxious for tidings. Evil news rides post, while good news baits. Milton. What tidings dost thou bring Addison. (more info) by Icel. ti; akin to Dan. tidende, Sw. tidning, G. zeung, AS. tidan

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TIDINGS)

• Fame
• report
• rumor
• bruit
• news
• tidings
• renown
• glory
• honor
• laurels
• celebrity
• reputation
• credit
• Intelligence
• Understanding
• apprehension
• comprehension
• conception
• announcement
• information
• publication
• mind
• knowledge
• advice
• notice
• instruction
• intellect
• Report
• announce
• ment
• relation
• narration
• recital
• description
• communication
• declaration
• fame
• repute
• noise
• reverberation
• Word
• Term
• expression
• message
• account
• order
• vocable
• signal
• engagement
• promise

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TIDINGS)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify

Related words: (words related to TIDINGS)

• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• VOCABLE
  A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. Carlyle. (more info) fr. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis,
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• ADVICE
  Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion;
• REVERBERATION
  The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame
• CREDIT FONCIER
  A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out
• ACCOUNTANCY
  The art or employment of an accountant.
• RENOWNED
  Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61.
• APPREHENSION
  1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• NARRATION
  That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject. Syn. -- Account; recital; rehearsal; relation; description; explanation; detail; narrative; story; tale;
• TIDINGS
  Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news. I shall make my master glad with these tidings. Shak. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith. Note: Although tidings is
• MISREPORT
  To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• INTELLECTUALIST
  1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• DISCREDITABLE
  Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.