media
/ˈmiː.di.ə//ˈmi.di.ə/
media noun: the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue. Also the plural of medium.
Noun (1)
media (plural medias or mediae)
- The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
- A voiced stop consonant.
- Antonyms:
- tenuis
- One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
- Synonyms:
- M
- An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
- Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L
- Synonyms:
- cuarto
Noun (2)
UK/ˈmiːdiə/US/ˈmidi.ə/
media (countable and uncountable, plural media or medias)
- The means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
- As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media and, second, web-based media, traditional print-based media has declined in popularity.
- The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.
- Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.
- […] yet they are all wildly popular pieces of media, viewed by millions of Christians and non-Christians alike. Why? Because they are first and foremost masterful movies and TV shows. Their creators made something worth seeing and sharing.2020, Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do, page 161
- The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
- Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.
- Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.
Proper noun capitalized: Media
IPA/ˈmiːdɪə/
Media
- A geographic region and ancient satrapy of the Persian Empire in northwestern Iran, originally inhabited by the Medes.
- A possible ancient kingdom ruled by the Medes from approximately 700 to 550 BCE, whose extent and sometimes even existence is debated.
- A township and village therein, in Henderson County, Illinois.
- A ghost town in Douglas County, Kansas.
- A borough, the county seat of Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Also used as
media is also the plural of medium.
media is also the clipping of multimedia.
media meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
media in Hindi
- means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information
- मीडिया mīḍiyā
- the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry
- संचार माध्यम sañcār mādhyam
media in Tamil
- ஊடகங்கள், ஊடகம்
media in Marathi
- प्रसारमाध्यमे, माध्यमे, प्रसार माध्यमे
media in Urdu
- means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information
- ذرائع ابلاغ zarā'e iblāġ
More languagesFewer languages
- media in Bengali
- গণমাধ্যম, মিডিয়া
- media in Telugu
- మీడియా
- media in Malayalam
- മാധ്യമങ്ങൾ, മാദ്ധ്യമങ്ങൾ
- media in Kannada
- ಮಾಧ್ಯಮಗಳು, ಮಾಧ್ಯಮ
- media in Punjabi
- ਮੀਡੀਆ
- media in Gujarati
- મીડિયા, માધ્યમો
- media in Odia
- ଗଣମାଧ୍ଯ଼ମ, ମିଡିଆ
- media in Nepali
- मिडिया, सञ्चार माध्यम
- media in Pashto
- رسنۍ rësënai
- media in Arabic
- وَسَائِل الْإِعْلَام wasāʔil al-ʔiʕlām, إِعْلَام ʔiʕlām
- media in Malay
- media, wahana
- media in Thai
- สื่อ sʉ̀ʉ
- media in Vietnamese
- phương tiện truyền thông, truyền thông, báo giới
- media in Myanmar
- မီဒီယာ midiya
Examples of media in a sentence
- He was included in a feature that was written by the EspnCricinfo department on the media.
- The president’s comments have drawn strong criticism from right-wing media outlets.
- She's scrubbing her social media accounts before the background check begins.
Synonyms of media
Antonyms
Forms of media
| plural | medias |
|---|---|
| plural | mediae |
| plural | media |
Origin of media
Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.
Latinate plural of medium, particularly as a clipping of communications media and often reinterpreted as singular or mass noun, from Latin media, neuter plural form of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).
Shortening from multimedia, from multi- + media (“forms of communication”).
Words formed from media
- acute otitis media
- chronic suppurative otitis media
- media archaeologist
- media archaeology
- medial
- service media
- tunica media
- antimedia
- bimedia
- bimediality
- cybermedia
- dead media
- digital media
- drive-by media
- earned media
- electronic media
- enemedia
- Godi media
- growing media
- hypermedia
- intermedia
- Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy
- legacy media
- lost media
- Lutyens' media
- mass media
- media advocacy
- media bridge
- media center
- mediacentric
- media circus
- mediacracy
- mediacrat
- mediacy
- media darling
- media democracy
- media event
- mediafan
- mediagenic
- media-historical
- media hype
- mediakin
- media kit
- medialect
- mediamacro
- mediamaking
- media outlet
- mediaperson
- mediasation
- media-savvy
- mediascape
- mediaspeak
- mediasphere
- media studies
- media stunt
- mediatic
- media whore
- mediazation
- mediot
- megamedia
Phrases with media
- hot media
- new media
- old media
- via media
- cool media
- media kits
- Media Luna
- Media Once
- media wasp
- news media
- open media
- rich media
42 more phrasesFewer phrases
- soft media
- auris media
- basal media
- Great Media
- media wasps
- mixed media
- moist media
- print media
- viral media
- growth media
- in media res
- media events
- media player
- media stunts
- media whores
- otitis media
- social media
- yellow media
- culture media
- Greater Media
- media bridges
- media centers
- media outlets
- media players
- minimal media
- optical media
- storage media
- contrast media
- media circuses
- media darlings
- trial by media
- streaming media
- trials by media
- Atropatene Media
- Atropatian Media
- circulating media
- media democracies
- media of exchange
- differential media
- transmission media
- social media revolution
- social media intelligence
Words that rhyme with media
Questions about media
- What does media mean?
- Media means the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
- What is media in Hindi?
- Media in Hindi is मीडिया (mīḍiyā), संचार माध्यम (sañcār mādhyam). See Media meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is media?
- Media can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce media?
- Media is pronounced /ˈmiː.di.ə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of media?
- The plural of media is medias.
Words near media in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: media (page history and authors); Media (page history and authors); media (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); media (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); media (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); media (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); media (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); media (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); media (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); media (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); media (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); media (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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