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.
Meanings
The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
(dated) 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.
(historical) Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L
Latinate plural of medium, particularly as a clipping of communications media and often reinterpreted as singular or mass noun, from Latin media, neuter plural form of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).
Meanings
(form-of, plural) plural of medium (only in certain senses)
The media have differed in their approaches to coverage of the scandal.
(countable, qualifier:often treated as uncountable, uncountable) The 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 has declined in popularity.
(form-of, nonstandard, plural, rare) plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)
The author visited the temple at Magazine Road, dedicated to the Nine Sovereigns, where tang-ki, media, were at the service of the public in order to communicate between the deceased and the living. […] Several media kicked a heated glowing red iron ball[…]. Other media danced to and fro swinging their swords fighting the unseen demons. […] [M]ale devotees led by the media walked across the scorching coals in an act of purification. […] In Penang the day ends with a medium possessed by the “Ninth Sovereign” being carried to the beach. 1972, Åke Haglund, Contact and Conflict: Studies in Contemporary Religious Attitudes among Chinese People, Lund: CWK Gleerups, →OCLC, page 191:
At a private circle, one evening in the early part of last week, whereof the two media of whom I spoke in my last formed a part, we were directed, through the raps, to place a guitar under the table. […] At a subsequent meeting of the same persons, held at the house of Mr. B., the father of Miss B., the medium, these musical performances were all repeated, with the addition of some extra performances with a small hand-bell, which the Spirit called for. 1854 February 4, Frater [pseudonym], “More from the Spirits in Buffalo”, in Spiritual Telegraph: Devoted to the Illustration of Spiritual Intercourse, volume II, number 40 (whole 92), New York, N.Y.: Partridge and Brittan, page 157, columns 4–5:
[A]s media often rebel, and neglect their appointed guides, they lay themselves open to the influences of evil spirits, who appear to be always alive for mischief, as we find too much the case in the earth-life. It is not the medium alone who is thus provided with a protector; […] There are well-known media in England who have thus in a short time devoured the chief contents of whole libraries. […] I must now get on to the next class, namely, Pictorial Mediumship, which differs from the Symbolic chiefly in the circumstance that the things seen and described by the medium do not in reality exist as material facts, but are only representations, prefiguring or bodying-forth a spiritual or psychical truth. Ezekiel, Daniel, the writer of the Apocalypse, and Swedenborg are instances of Pictorial media, and there are many beautiful examples amongst modern media, of whom T. L. Harris is one of the most eminent; Judge Edmonds, of America, is another instance. 1872 December 31, T. Grant, A Scientific View of Modern Spiritualism. […], London: James Burns, […], pages 6–7 and 15:
[A]n alphabetic and telegraphic correspondence was established between members of the Fox family and the mysterious invisible agent. Two daughters of Mr. Fox appear to have been the principal media in the communications thus far; […] [I]t was calculated that in September, 1853, there were thirty thousand media in the United States. […] Many of the earlier media or vehicles of these communications, persons whose peculiar nervous and electric temperament was thought to favour intercourse with, departed spirits, asserted, and their friends confirmed the fact, that these invisible powers, by certain distinct knockings, corresponding to the place of the letters in the alphabet, were able to convey messages. […] [T]hese rappings assumed protean forms. They would occur […] when the feet of the media were isolated on glass stools,[…]. Media with no taste for music, when impressed, would play well on the piano; […] 1854, Mary Howitt, compiler, “[Appendix.] Spiritual Manifestations.”, in The History of Magic. […], volume II, London: Henry G. Bohn, […], pages 491–494:
There is, again, “the writing medium,” the man or woman influenced seeming to lose control of the right arm, when the pen or pencil is taken;[…]. There is, finally, “the speaking medium,” the person influenced being lost in a swoon or trance, and then uttering strange and unaccountable sentiments and expressions. Moreover, it is now asserted as the teaching of these media, that the scenes of the Salem witchcraft, so called, were the attempts of the spirits in another world to make their presence known, and to convey communications to the living. […] Media, Persons of Nervous Organism. […] We should not disparage at all, we wish not to do so, the character of those who are generally the media. We allude not to the fact that they are generally young, and inexperienced, and females. 1852, Traverse Oldfield [pseudonym; George Whitefield Samson], “To Daimonion,” or The Spiritual Medium. Its Nature Illustrated by the History of Its Uniform Mysterious Manifestation When Unduly Excited. […], Boston, Mass.: Gould and Lincoln, […], pages 14, 36, and 39:
As a confirmation of these revelations, there are several media in different parts of the world who have declared that they have seen various communications from spirits of high orders, who have declared that, for furtherance of God’s eternal will, one central medium or prophet shall be established,[…]. Mr. J. Jones, of Coventry, whose son is a medium, has written an able article on this subject, which has appeared in several periodicals, and all the media candidly acknowledge that this prophet has never been revealed unto them, and as these revelations were obtained in 1854, and I had seen the accounts given by other media recently published, declaring to their being informed that a prophet should come, […] I, in August, 1856, determined to send forth the revelations received two years since respecting myself and others, in reference to our instructions upon the establishment of the New Era and the true universal church of Christ, and thus prove that the event was foretold by other media who knew nothing of me, or the affairs into which I had embarked; […] 1857, J. G. H. Brown, “Further Revelations as Instructions from the Celestial Powers”, in A Message from the World of Spirits, Shewing the State of Men after Death; […], London: […] Holyoake & Co., […], pages 279–280:
(countable, qualifier:often treated as uncountable, uncountable) The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, photographs, etc.) which are broadcast or published.
[…] yet they are all wildly popular pieces of media, viewed by millions of Christians and non-Christians alike. Why? Because they are first and foremost masterful movies and TV shows. Their creators made something worth seeing and sharing. 2020, Jordan Raynor, Master of One: Find and Focus on the Work You Were Created to Do, page 161:
Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.
(countable, qualifier:often treated as uncountable, uncountable, usually, with a definite article) The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
Some celebrities dislike press conferences, where the media bombards them with questions.
(countable, uncountable) Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.
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broadcasting information) · ja メディア (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · mi arapāho (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · cs média (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · mi pāpāhotanga (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · nb media (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · pt mídia (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · fi viestin (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · ru ме́диа (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · kl tusagassiorfik (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · sl mediji (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · hu média (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · 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institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · fr médias (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · el μέσα μαζικής ενημέρωσης (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · et meedia (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · mi hungapāho (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · ru ме́диа (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · sh медији (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · is miðill (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · mk меди́уми (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · lt žiniasklaida (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · th สื่อ (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · bg масме́дия (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · lv mediji (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · vi truyền thông (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · sv press (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · et meedia (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · fi media (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · be мас-мэ́дыя (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · ko 미디어 (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · tr medya (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · ro media (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · be мас-ме́дыя (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · ps رسنۍ (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · ar وَسَائِل الْإِعْلَام (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · nb medier (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · fa-ira رَسانِه (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · el μέσα (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · it media (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · ar إِعْلَام (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · ja 媒体 (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · is miðill (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · fi tiedotusvälineet (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · es medios de comunicación (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · fi viestimet (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · ko 언론 (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information) · be СМІ (the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry) · mi pāpāho (means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information)
media en · ADJ · etymology 3
Etymology
Shortening from multimedia, from multi- + media (“forms of communication”).
Meanings
(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable) Clipping of multimedia.