rumour

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)British, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland spelling of rumor.

   “Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide”

   “There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.”

   “"Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.”

   “I myself gave support to the summoning of the Estates General ... as merely mistaken . Similarly it might be held that Paradise originated in a rumour invented in hell to make society the more interesting . ' ' We need a saviour .”

   “Dame Rumour outstrides me yet again.”

2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A prolonged, indistinct noise.

   “Prithee, listen well; / I heard a bustling rumour like a fray, / And the wind brings it from the Capitol.”

verb

1. Commonwealth standard spelling of rumor.

   “Two of the four main routes over the Border were rumoured to be threatened with withdrawal of, or heavy cuts in, passenger services.”