media

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
  2. A voiced stop consonant.
  3. One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
  4. An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  5. Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L
noun
  1. plural of medium (only in certain senses)
  2. plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)
noun
  1. The means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
  2. The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.
  3. The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
  4. Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.
adj
  1. Clipping of multimedia.
name
  1. A geographic region and ancient satrapy of the Persian Empire in northwestern Iran, originally inhabited by the Medes.
  2. A possible ancient kingdom ruled by the Medes from approximately 700 to 550 BCE, whose extent and sometimes even existence is debated.
  3. A place in the United States:
  4. A township and village therein, in Henderson County, Illinois.
  5. A ghost town in Douglas County, Kansas.
  6. A borough, the county seat of Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

Pronunciation

/ˈmiː.di.ə/ /ˈmɛ.di.ə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-media.wav /ˈmi.di.ə/ En-us-media.oga /ˈmiɖ(ɪ)jɑ/ /ˈmeɖ(ɪ)jɑ/ /ˈmiːdiə/ /ˈmidi.ə/ /ˈmiːdɪə/

Word forms

media medias mediae

Etymology

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.

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