Media (root: medium)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Me=di=a

CIDE DICTIONARY

Media, n. sing. & pl. 

•  The latinic plural form of medium, sometimes used as a singular noun with the same meaning as medium; as, (Computers) place your installation media into the device which will read it; (Microbiology) the tuberculosis bacterium will only grow in a special media.  [1913 Webster]
•  The public institutions that report the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, collectively; the news media; as, the media were obsessed with Monica Lewinsky for months.  [PJC]

Media, n. [NL., fr. L. medius middle.].

 One of the sonant mutes b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, p, t, k), and the aspiratæ (aspirates) ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Media, n.pl.
1 pl. of MEDIUM.
2 (usu. prec. by the) the main means of mass communication (esp. newspapers and broadcasting) regarded collectively.

Idiom

media event an event primarily intended to attract publicity.

Usage

Use as a mass noun with a singular verb is common (e.g. the media is on our side), but is generally disfavoured (cf. AGENDA, DATA).

Media, n. (pl. mediae)
1 Phonet. a voiced stop, e.g. g, b, d.
2 Anat. a middle layer of the wall of an artery or other vessel.

Etymology

L, fem. of medius middle

THESAURUS

Media

communication engineering, communication explosion, communication technology, communication theory, communications, communications engineer, communications industry, communications medium, communications network, electrical communication, electronic communication, electronic communications, information explosion, information theory, radiocommunication, signaling, telecommunication, wire communication, wireless communication

ROGET THESAURUS

Media

News

N news, information, piece of news, budget of news, budget of information, intelligence, tidings, word, advice, aviso, message, dispatch, despatch, telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy, report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame, talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping, town tattle, table talk, tittle tattle, canard, topic of the day, idea afloat, bulletin, fresh news, stirring news, glad tidings, flash, news just in, on-the-spot coverage, live coverage, old story, old news, stale news, stale story, chestnut, narrator, newsmonger, scandalmonger, talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler, journalism, media, news media, the press, the information industry, newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette, publication, radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission), United Press International, UPI, Associated Press, AP, The Dow Jones News Service, DJ, The New York Times News Service, NYT, Reuters, TASS, The Nikkei, newscaster, newsman, newswoman, reporter, journalist, correspondent, foreign correspondent, special correspondent, war correspondent, news team, news department, anchorman, anchorwoman, sportscaster, weatherman, press secretary, public relations department, public relations man, many-tongued, rumored, publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported, rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town, in progress, live, on the spot, in person, as the story goes, as the story runs, as they say, it is said, by telegraph, by wireless, airy tongues that syllable men's names, what's up?, what's the latest?, what's new?, what's the latest poop?.