media

UK/ˈmiː.di.ə/US/ˈmi.di.ə/

nounA2+Very common — you will meet it every day · #1,390 of 15,258leans written

The media are the newspapers, radio and television taken together. The mass media, media coverage, blame the media.

Strictly it is the plural of medium and takes a plural verb, though the singular is now common and no longer worth fighting. In art, media are the materials worked in, and in biology a medium is what something is grown on.

Definitions of media

1nounmediaThe newspapers, radio and television taken together.A2+
“The story was all over the media within hours of the crash.”

media is a group.

Where it comes from

Latin media is the plural of medium, a middle or means. Mass media was coined in the 1920s.

Spanish
media
Proto-Indo-European
*médʰyos — between
Proto-Italic
*meðjos
Latin
media
English, today
media

Built from

medius · Latin — middle

Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European médʰyos (“between”). In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media. a doublet of medium and medio and mediate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

media in the wild

Due to his extensive wealth and influence over media and politics, Murdoch has been described as an oligarch.
Rupert Murdoch
In September 2025, they reached a settlement, giving Lachlan ownership of Murdoch's media empire.
Rupert Murdoch
When a serial with the same content is published in more than one media type, a different ISSN is assigned to each media type.
ISSN
For example, many serials are published both in print and electronic media.
ISSN
DW offers regularly updated articles on its news website and runs its own centre for international media development, DW Akademie.
Deutsche Welle

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Related words

the medius family

media medal immediate medium

media — used about once every 149 pages · #1,390 · point at the bar for the others

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