Bulletin
['bʊlɪtɪn] or ['bʊlətɪn]
Definition
(noun.) a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast).
(verb.) make public by bulletin.
Editor: Rosanne--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.
(n.) Any public notice or announcement, especially of news recently received.
(n.) A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society.
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Definition
n. an official report of public news.
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Examples
- What's the last bulletin about mother-in-law? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It's in the bulletin. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A very novel literary feature of the work was the issuance of a bulletin devoted entirely to the Edison lighting propaganda. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The following extracts from Bulletin No. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Watch the crowds in front of a bulletin board, finding a vicarious excitement and an abstract relief from the monotony of their own lives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- By April of 1882, the Bulletin had attained the respectable size of sixteen pages; and in December it was a portly magazine of forty-eight. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Very soon then after her arrival, Rebecca began to take a regular place in Mrs. Crawley's bulletin from the Hall. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The first item in the first Bulletin dealt with the Fire Question, and all through the successive issues runs a series of significant items on the same subject. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Paul--such had been the perpetual bulletin; and nobody commented, far less condemned. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It will also have been noted that he used the telegraph to get items for his little journal, and to bulletin his special news of the Civil War along the line. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In 1905 an account of Langley's aeroplane appeared in the Bulletin of the Italian Aeronautical Society. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Captain Crawley came every day, and received bulletins from Miss Rebecca respecting his aunt's health. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He had constant bulletins from Miss Briggs in London respecting little Rawdon, who was left behind there, who sent messages of his own. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For days all London watched for the bulletins of the young chemist’s condition. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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