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Media Definition

media

See also média, medía, and Media

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

media (plural mediae)

  1. (anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
  2. (linguistics, dated) A voiced stop consonant.
Usage notes

Not to be confused with medium.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

media

  1. Plural form of medium.
  2. (often used as uncountable, though such use is proscribed) Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
    As a result of the rise of, first, television news and entertainment media and, second, web-based media, traditional print-based media have declined in popularity.
  3. (usually with a definite article; often used as uncountable, though such use is proscribed) The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
    Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombard them with questions.
Derived terms
Terms derived from media
Translations
means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information
the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry
  • Arabic: وسائل الإعلام (ar) (wasaa'il al-'i3laam) pl.
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 媒體 (cmn), 媒体 (cmn) (méitǐ), 傳媒 (cmn), 传媒 (cmn) (chuánméi)
  • Finnish: tiedotusvälineet (fi), viestimet (fi), media (fi)
  • French: médias (fr) m. pl.
  • German: Medien (de) n. pl.
  • Greek: μέσα μαζικής ενημέρωσης (el) (mésa mazikís enimérosis) n. pl. (ΜΜΕ (el))
  • Hindi: संचार माध्यम (hi)
  • Japanese: メディア (ja) (media), 媒体 (ja) (baitai)
  • Persian: رسانه (fa) (resâne', rasâne')
  • Portuguese: mídia (pt) f.
  • Russian: средства массовой информации (ru) (srédstva mássovoj informácii) n. pl., (abbreviation) СМИ (ru) (SMI), масс-медиа (ru) (mass-média) pl.
  • Spanish: medios de comunicación (es) pl.

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Esperanto

Etymology

From medi- + -a.

Adjective

media (plural mediaj, accusative singular median, accusative plural mediajn)

  1. environmental

Finnish

Noun

media

  1. media

Declension

Declension of media (type katiska)
singular plural
nominative media mediat
genitive median medioiden medioitten mediojen mediain1
partitive mediaa medioita medioja
accusative media median mediat
inessive mediassa medioissa
elative mediasta medioista
illative mediaan medioihin
adessive medialla medioilla
ablative medialta medioilta
allative medialle medioille
essive mediana medioina
translative mediaksi medioiksi
instructive – medioin
abessive mediatta medioitta
comitative – medioineen
1) Rare.

Galician

Noun

media f. (plural medias)

  1. average

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Italian

Adjective

media sg.

  1. feminine form of medio

Noun

media f. (plural medie)

  1. average, mean

Noun

media m. inv.

  1. media

Synonyms

Verb

media

  1. Third-person singular present tense of mediare
  2. Second-person singular imperative of mediare

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Latin

Adjective

media

  1. nominative feminine singular of medius
  2. nominative neuter plural of medius
  3. accusative neuter plural of medius
  4. vocative feminine singular of medius
  5. nominative neuter plural of medius

mediā

  1. ablative feminine singular of medius

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin mediāre, present active infinitive of mediō < Latin medius.

Verb

a media (third-person singular present mediază, past participle mediat) 1st conj.

  1. to mediate
  2. to intercede, interpose

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Spanish

Noun

media f. (plural medias)

  1. sock, stocking
  2. pantyhose
  3. (mathematics) mean, average
  4. half an hour
    son las cinco y media = it’s 5:30.

Adjective

media f. (masculine medio, feminine plural medias, masculine plural medios)

  1. half
    media hora = half an hour.
  2. middle, mid, in the middle of
  3. average, mean

Verb

media (infinitive mediar)

  1. Third-person singular present tense of mediar

Swedish

Noun

media

  1. indefinite plural of medium
  2. definite plural of medium

Usage notes

 

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  • Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or data
    • Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising
    • Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass electronic communication networks
    • Digital media, electronic media used to store, transmit, and receive digitized information
    • Electronic media, communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical energy
    • Hypermedia, media with hyperlinks
    • Mass media, all means of mass communications
    • Multimedia, communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and processing
    • New media, a broad term encompassing the amalgamation of traditional media with the interactive power of computer and communications technology
    • News media, mass media focused on communicating news
    • News media (United States), the news media of the United States of America
    • Print media, communications delivered via paper or canvas
    • Published media, any media made available to the public
    • Recording media, devices used to store information
    • Social media, media disseminated through social interaction
    • MEDIA Programme, a European Union initiative to support the European audiovisual sector

Computing

Fine art

  • Media (arts), materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work

History

  • Median Empire, an ancient Iranian kingdom of the Medians (Medes) in north-western Iran

Life sciences

Places

Music

Mythology

  • Medea, the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis in Greek mythology

Ships

  • RMS Media, a Cunard Line cargo liner in service 1948-61

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