breaking news
breaking news noun: news that has either just happened or is currently happening.
Noun
breaking news (uncountable)
- News that has either just happened or is currently happening.
- Breaking news may contain incomplete information, factual errors, or poor editing because of a rush to publication.
- There is also breaking news that the delayed Crossrail project in London cannot be completed without a further £80 million injection of funds.2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76
breaking news meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
breaking news in Hindi
- news that just happened or is happening
- ताज़ा ख़बर tāzā xabar
breaking news in Tamil
- அதிர்வுச் செய்தி, புதிய செய்தி, நிகழ்முறி செய்தி
breaking news in Urdu
- news that just happened or is happening
- فَوری خَبَر faurī xabar, تازَہ خَبَر tāza xabar
breaking news in Kannada
- ಸಿಡಿಸುದ್ದಿ
More languagesFewer languages
- breaking news in Arabic
- أَخْبَار هَامَّة ʔaḵbār hāmma, خَبَر عَاجِل ḵabar ʕājil
- breaking news in Malay
- berita gempar
- breaking news in Persian
- خبرفوری xabar-e-fowri
- breaking news in Vietnamese
- tin nóng, tin tức nóng
Questions about breaking news
- What does breaking news mean?
- Breaking news means news that has either just happened or is currently happening.
- What is breaking news in Hindi?
- Breaking news in Hindi is ताज़ा ख़बर (tāzā xabar). See Breaking news meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is breaking news?
- Breaking news is a noun.
Words near breaking news in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: breaking news (page history and authors); breaking news (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); breaking news (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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