# media

Pronunciation: say "MEE-dee-uh" US /ˈmi.di.ə/, UK /ˈmiː.di.ə/

## Noun

1. The newspapers, television, radio, websites, and other means of mass communication, and the journalists who work in them.
   - Simple: Newspapers, TV, radio, and websites that give news to the public, and the people who work for them.
   - _The country's media played a key role in shaping public opinion during the crisis._
   - _Independent media often face pressure from powerful governments._
2. Content such as films, shows, music, and images, whether broadcast, published, or stored as digital files.
   - Simple: Things like films, shows, music, and pictures, including the digital files that hold them.
   - _Streaming platforms have transformed how audiences access media._
   - _Modern media ranges from short video clips to feature-length documentaries._
4. Plural of medium, including artists' materials and methods, communication channels, and substances that transmit waves or support growth. — plural of medium (only in certain senses)
   - Simple: Plural of medium: materials or methods for art, ways to communicate, or substances that carry waves or support growth.
   - _Oil and watercolor are two of the most traditional artistic media._
   - _Over the years the sculptor has worked in many media, from bronze and marble to recycled plastic._

## Adjective

3. Clipping of multimedia: used before a noun for things that handle or contain audio, video and images, as in media player or media files. — Clipping of multimedia.
   - Simple: Clipping of multimedia. Used before a noun for things that play or store sound, video and pictures, as in media player.
   - _The new laptop has media keys for playing, pausing, and skipping songs._
   - _The media player on my laptop won't open this video file, so I downloaded a different app._

## Other meanings

- (noun) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel, composed of muscular and connective tissue.
- (noun) A worker ant in a leaf-cutter ant colony that is specialized as a forager.
- (noun) In entomology, the longitudinal wing vein that runs behind the radius and ahead of the cubitus, often splitting into several branches.
- (noun) A voiced stop consonant, such as the sounds written 'b', 'd', or 'g'.
- (noun) Synonym of cuarto: a historical Spanish measure for grain and other dry goods, half a fanega, about 27.8 liters.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–2, 4** — This is the plural of medium formed in the Latin way, used especially as a short form of communications media and often treated as a singular or mass noun. Latin media was the neuter plural of medius ("middle"), which goes back to Proto-Italic *meðjos and Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos ("between").
**Meaning 3** — A shortening of multimedia, from multi- plus media ("forms of communication").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/media (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).