Definition of MEDIA

media

Meanings

Plural: media, mediae, medias

Noun

  • a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
  • the surrounding environment
  • an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication
  • (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms
  • a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter
  • (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed
  • an intervening substance through which something is achieved
  • a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position
  • someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
  • (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public
  • an occupation for which you are especially well suited
  • The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
  • A voiced stop consonant.
  • One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
  • An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  • Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L
  • plural of medium (only in certain senses)
  • plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)
  • Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
  • The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.
  • The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
  • Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.

Adj

  • Clipping of multimedia.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

cuarto, culture medium, M, mass medium, medium, metier, sensitive, spiritualist

Antonyms

tenuis

Scrabble Score: 8

media is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
media is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
media is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

media is a valid Words With Friends word