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Media - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Main Entry: 2media
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural me·di·as
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: plural of medium
Date: 1923
1 : a medium of cultivation, conveyance, or expression; especially : medium 2b
2 a singular or plural in construction : mass media
b plural : members of the mass media
usage The singular media and its plural medias seem to have originated in the field of advertising over 70 years ago; they are still so used without stigma in that specialized field. In most other applications media is used as a plural of medium. The popularity of the word in references to the agencies of mass communication is leading to the formation of a mass noun, construed as a singular <there's no basis for it. You know, the news media gets on to something — Edwin Meese 3d> <the media is less interested in the party's policies — James Lewis, Guardian Weekly>. This use is not as well established as the mass-noun use of data and is likely to incur criticism especially in writing.
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Main Entry:
phe·nom·e·na
Pronunciation: \fi-ˈnä-mə-nə, -ˌnä\
Function:
noun
Inflected Form(s):
plural phe·nom·e·nas
Date: 1576
nonstandard : phenomenon
usage Phenomena has been in occasional use as a singular for more than 400 years and its plural
phenomenas for more than 350. Our evidence shows that it is primarily a speech form used by poets, critics, and professors, among others, but one that sometimes turns up in edited prose <the Borgia were, in modern terms, a media
phenomena —
Economist>. It is etymologically no more irregular than
stamina, agenda, and
candelabra, but it has nowhere near the frequency of use that they have, and while they are standard,
phenomena is still rather borderline.