n. 1
A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
A report by the telecommunications ministry on the phone network revealed a severe capacity problem.
n. 2
Reputation.
v. 1
To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).

Related words

Forms

Plural: reports → accounts, stories, statements, notes…
Past participle: reported
e.g. reported → described, published, teld, detailed…

Report, Reveal or Herald?

We report an interview, reveal a secret, herald the coming of some distinguished person or great event.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

4 letters: tell¹, news¹, talk¹, word¹, note¹, tale¹, fame¹, bang¹, buzz¹
5 letters: story², study², sound¹, paper², cover², theme¹, crack¹, rumor²
6 letters: record², return², advice², detail², relate², rumour², repute²
7 letters: account², mention², publish², declare², recital³, hearsay², narrate²
8 letters: describe², relation³, announce², proclaim², denounce²
9 letters: statement², narrative³, explosion³, discharge², chronicle³, advertise³, narration³, circulate³, advertize
10 letters: reputation⁴, detonation⁴, promulgate³, annunciate
11 letters: description³, composition⁴, communicate⁴, declaration⁴, subordinate⁴
12 letters: intelligence⁴, announcement³
13 letters: communication⁵

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (story² = 2 syllables).