Dictionary Definition
announce
Verb
1 make known; make an announcement; "She denoted
her feelings clearly" [syn: denote]
2 announce publicly or officially; "The President
declared war" [syn: declare]
3 give the names of; "He announced the winners of
the spelling bee"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From anoncier, French annoncer, from annuntiare, from ad + nuntiare, from nuntius. See Nuncio, and compare with annunciate.Pronunciation
Verb
- To give public
notice, or first notice
of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
- rfdate convert into real quote Her [Q. Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. — Gilpin.
- To pronounce; to
declare by judicial
sentence.
- rfdate convert into real quote Publish laws, announce Or life or death. — Prior.
Translations
give public notice, or first notice of
- Chinese: 宣布 (xuānbù)
- Czech: oznámit
- Dutch: aankondigen, declareren, verkonden i archaic, verkondigen
- Finnish: ilmoittaa, kuuluttaa
- German: ankündigen, verkünden, bekanntgeben
- Japanese: 発表する (happyō suru)
- Kurdish:
- Swedish: tillkännage, annonsera
pronounce; declare by judicial sentence
- Dutch: declareren, verklaren, uitspreken
- Finnish: julistaa
- German: verkünden, bekanntgeben, bekanntmachen
- ttbc Hebrew: להודיע (le'hodya) (1,2)
- ttbc Old English: bēodan, ābēodan
- ttbc Portuguese: anunciar
- ttbc Spanish: anunciar
References
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
advertise, affirm, allege, annunciate, antecede, antedate, anticipate, argue, assert, assever, asseverate, attest, augur, aver, avouch, avow, be before, be early, bespeak, betoken, blazon, break the news, bring
word, broadcast, bruit
about, circulate, come
before, communicate,
confirm, contend, declare, declare roundly,
disclose, divulge, enunciate, express, forebode, forecast, forerun, foreshow, foretell, give a report, give
notice, give tidings of, harbinger, have, herald, hint at, hold, impart, inform, insist, intimate, issue a manifesto,
issue a statement, lay down, maintain, make a statement,
make an announcement, make known, make public, manifesto, notify, portend, preannounce, precede, precurse, predate, predicate, predict, preexist, preindicate, presage, present, proclaim, profess, promulgate, pronounce, propound, protest, publicize, publish, publish a manifesto,
put, put forth, put it, put
out, rehearse, relate, report, reveal, rumor, run before, say, set down, set forth, show
forth, signal, sound, speak, speak out, speak up, stand
for, stand on, state,
submit, suggest, tell, testify, usher in, witness, write
up