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gossip
Overview of noun gossip
The noun gossip has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (3) chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, chin-wagging, causerie -- (light informal conversation for social occasions)
2. (2) gossip, comment, scuttlebutt -- (a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip")
3. gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger -- (a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others)
Overview of verb gossip
The verb gossip has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. dish the dirt, gossip -- (wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies; "She won't dish the dirt")
2. chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit -- (talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gossip
3 senses of gossip
Sense 1
chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, chin-wagging, causerie
=> chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose
=> conversation
=> speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication
=> auditory communication
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
gossip, comment, scuttlebutt
=> report, account
=> informing, making known
=> speech act
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
=> communicator
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun gossip
2 of 3 senses of gossip
Sense 2
gossip, comment, scuttlebutt
=> earful
=> rumor, rumour, hearsay
=> grapevine, pipeline, word of mouth
=> scandal, dirt, malicious gossip
=> talk, talk of the town
Sense 3
gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
=> cat
=> scandalmonger
=> tattletale, tattler, taleteller, talebearer, telltale, blabbermouth
=> yenta
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gossip
3 senses of gossip
Sense 1
chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, chin-wagging, causerie
=> chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose
Sense 2
gossip, comment, scuttlebutt
=> report, account
Sense 3
gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
=> communicator
Antonyms of noun gossip
Member Holonyms of noun gossip
Substance Holonyms of noun gossip
Part Holonyms of noun gossip
Member Meronyms of noun gossip
Substance Meronyms of noun gossip
Part Meronyms of noun gossip
Meronyms of noun gossip
Holonyms of noun gossip
Attributes of noun gossip
Derived Forms of noun gossip
3 senses of gossip
Sense 1
chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, chin-wagging, causerie
RELATED TO>(adj) gossipy#1
=> chatty, gossipy, newsy
RELATED TO>(verb) gossip#2
=> chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
Sense 2
gossip, comment, scuttlebutt
RELATED TO>(verb) gossip#1
=> dish the dirt, gossip
Sense 3
gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
RELATED TO>(verb) gossip#1
=> dish the dirt, gossip
Domain of noun gossip
Domain Terms of noun gossip
Familiarity of noun gossip
gossip used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun gossip
3 senses of gossip
Sense 1
chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, chin-wagging, causerie
> chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose
=> chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, chin-wagging, causerie
Sense 2
gossip, comment, scuttlebutt
> report, account
=> summarization, summarisation
=> indirect discourse
=> direct discourse, direct quotation
=> megillah
=> debriefing
=> anecdote
=> narration, recital, yarn
=> gossip, comment, scuttlebutt
Sense 3
gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
> communicator
=> alarmist
=> allegorizer, allegoriser
=> announcer
=> articulator
=> asserter, declarer, affirmer, asseverator, avower
=> avower
=> broadcaster
=> conferee
=> conferrer
=> confessor
=> correspondent, letter writer
=> gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
=> hisser
=> informant, source
=> laudator, lauder, extoller
=> negotiator, negotiant, treater
=> persuader, inducer
=> popularizer, populariser, vulgarizer, vulgariser
=> presenter
=> promisee
=> promiser, promisor
=> propagandist
=> propagator, disseminator
=> publicist, publicizer, publiciser
=> quoter
=> rambler
=> reporter, newsman, newsperson
=> respondent, responder, answerer
=> roarer, bawler, bellower, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller
=> sender, transmitter
=> signaler, signaller
=> signer
=> swearer
=> sympathizer, sympathiser, comforter
=> telepathist, thought-reader, mental telepathist, mind reader
=> twaddler
=> waffler
=> warner
=> waver
=> wirer
=> writer, author
Meronyms of noun gossip
3 senses of gossip
Sense 3
gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
=> communicator
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun gossip
Grep of noun gossip
gossip
gossip columnist
gossiper
gossiping
gossipmonger
gossipmongering
malicious gossip
Antonyms of verb gossip
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb gossip
2 senses of gossip
Sense 1
dish the dirt, gossip
=> talk, speak
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Sense 2
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
=> converse, discourse
=> talk, speak
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb gossip
2 senses of gossip
Sense 1
dish the dirt, gossip
=> rumor, rumour, bruit
Sense 2
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
=> shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb gossip
2 senses of gossip
Sense 1
dish the dirt, gossip
=> talk, speak
Sense 2
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
=> converse, discourse
'Cause To' of verb gossip
Derived Forms of verb gossip
2 senses of gossip
Sense 1
dish the dirt, gossip
RELATED TO>(noun) gossiper#1
=> gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
RELATED TO>(noun) gossip#3
=> gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger
RELATED TO>(noun) gossip#2
=> gossip, comment, scuttlebutt
RELATED TO>(noun) gossiping#1
=> gossiping, gossipmongering
Sense 2
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
RELATED TO>(noun) gossip#1
=> chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, chin-wagging, causerie
Domain of verb gossip
Domain Terms of verb gossip
Familiarity of verb gossip
gossip used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb gossip
2 senses of gossip
Sense 1
dish the dirt, gossip
EX: Sam and Sue gossip
EX: Sam wants to gossip with Sue
Sense 2
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb gossip
2 senses of gossip
Sense 1
dish the dirt, gossip
> talk, speak
=> continue, go on, carry on, proceed
=> hold forth, discourse, dissertate
=> pontificate
=> orate
=> talk down
=> spiel
=> dogmatize, dogmatise
=> cheek
=> level
=> talk turkey
=> monologuize, monologuise, soliloquize, soliloquise
=> converse, discourse
=> chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash
=> dish the dirt, gossip
=> rap
Sense 2
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
> converse, discourse
=> argue, contend, debate, fence
=> interview, question
=> interview
=> interview
=> chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb gossip
Sense 1
dish the dirt, gossip
=> talk, speak
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Sense 2
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
=> converse, discourse
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Grep of verb gossip
gossip
Grep of adj gossip
gossipy
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