tidings

Definitions


[ˈtʌɪdɪŋz], (Noun)

Definitions:
- news; information
(e.g: the bearer of glad tidings)

- a flock of magpies
(e.g: a tiding of magpies perch in the low pines)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Old English tīdung ‘announcement, piece of news’, probably from Old Norse títhindi ‘news of events’, from títhr ‘occurring’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries