Usually means: Spreading information, true or false.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. gossip: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gossip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gossip: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gossip: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gossip: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gossip, gossip: Wordnik
  7. gossip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gossip: Wiktionary
  9. gossip: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gossip: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gossip: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gossip, gossip: Dictionary.com
  13. gossip: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gossip: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Gossip: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gossip: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gossip: Rhymezone
  19. gossip: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gossip: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Gossip: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. gossip: Free Dictionary
  23. gossip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Gossip: The Word Detective
  25. gossip: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gossip: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gossip: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. GOSSIP: Acronym Finder
  3. gossip: Idioms
  4. gossip: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gossip: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See gossiped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.
noun:  (uncountable) Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
noun:  (uncountable) Idle conversation in general.
noun:  (uncountable) A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
noun:  (computing) Communication done using a gossip protocol.
noun:  (now only historical) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother; the godparent of one's child or godchild, or the parent of one's godchild.
noun:  (obsolete) A familiar acquaintance.
noun:  (obsolete) Title used with the name of one's child's godparent or of a friend.
verb:  (intransitive) To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information.
verb:  (intransitive) To talk idly.
verb:  (obsolete) To stand godfather to; to provide godparents for.
verb:  (obsolete) To enjoy oneself during festivities, to make merry.
verb:  (intransitive, computing) To communicate using a gossip protocol.
noun:  A surname.

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