EGAVE

media

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 52.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
  2. noun A voiced stop consonant.
  3. noun One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
  4. noun An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  5. noun Synonym of cuarto: a half-fanega, a traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 27.8 L
  6. noun plural of medium
    The media have differed in their approaches to coverage of the scandal.
  7. noun plural of medium (“someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world”)
  8. noun 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.

Similar words

mass media median braces substrates tape rush environment milieu diffusion bracket

Often followed by

and in of are to coverage is for as

Word family

Media Median Medians mediae medias the media

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