announce
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) enPR: ə-nouns', IPA: /əˈnaʊns/
- (British) enPR: ə-nouns', IPA: /əˈnaʊns/; enPR: ă'nouns, IPA: /ˈæ.naʊns/
announce (announces, present participle announcing; past and past participle announced)
- (transitive) to give public notice, especially for the first time; to make known
- c. 1780 William Gilpin (priest), Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain
- Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
- Synonyms: proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgate
- c. 1780 William Gilpin (priest), Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain
- (transitive) to pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence
- c. 1718, Matthew Prior, First Hymn of Callimachus
- Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.
- Synonyms: abjudicate, judge
- c. 1718, Matthew Prior, First Hymn of Callimachus
- See also Thesaurus:announce
- French: annoncer
- German: ankündigen, verkünden, bekanntgeben, verkündigen, verlauten
- Portuguese: anunciar
- Russian: объявля́ть
- Spanish: anunciar
- German: verkünden, bekanntgeben, bekanntmachen
- Portuguese: pronunciar
- Russian: оглаша́ть
- Spanish: declarar
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