Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - rumoured

~ BrE rumored AmE adj if something is rumoured to be true, people are saying secretly or unofficially that it may be true  (it is rumoured that)  (It was rumoured that Johnson had been poisoned. | be rumoured to be sth)  (She was rumored to be a millionaire. | widely rumoured)  (a young man widely rumoured to be her lover)