hearsay : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hearsay	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hearsay
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hearsay adj heard through another rather than directly; "hearsay information" n gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth Synonym(s): rumor, rumour, hearsay
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hearsay \Hear"say`\, n. Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another. Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the memory of our great national poet originated in frivolous hearsays of his life and conversation. --Prof. Wilson. {Hearsay evidence} (Law), that species of testimony which consists in a a narration by one person of matters told him by another. It is, with a few exceptions, inadmissible as testimony. --Abbott.