What does announce mean?

Definitions for announce
əˈnaʊnsan·nounce

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. announce, denoteverb

    make known; make an announcement

    "She denoted her feelings clearly"

  2. announce, declareverb

    announce publicly or officially

    "The President declared war"

  3. announceverb

    give the names of

    "He announced the winners of the spelling bee"

  4. announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, heraldverb

    foreshadow or presage

Wiktionary

  1. announceverb

    To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

    Her [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

  2. announceverb

    To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

    Publish laws, announce Or life or death. Prior.

  3. Etymology: From anoncier, from annuntiare, from ad + nuntio, from nuntius. See nuncio, and compare with annunciate.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Announceverb

    Etymology: annoucer, Fr. annuncio, Lat.

    Of the Messiah I have heard foretold
    By all the prophets; of thy birth at length
    Announc’d by Gabriel with the first I knew. Paradise Reg.

    Those, mighty Jove, mean time, thy glorious care,
    Who model nations, publish laws, announce
    Or life or death. Matthew Prior.

ChatGPT

  1. announce

    To announce means to make something publicly known, often in a formal or official manner. This includes sharing information, news, events, decisions, or plans to a group, crowd, society, or the public, typically through various forms of media or communication.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Announceverb

    to give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim

  2. Announceverb

    to pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Announce

    an-nowns′, v.t. to declare: to give public notice of: to make known.—n. Announce′ment. [O. Fr. anoncer—L. annuntiāread, to, nunti, -āre, to deliver news.]

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  1. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'announce' in Verbs Frequency: #176

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of announce in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of announce in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of announce in a Sentence

  1. State John Kerry:

    I won't announce a date, but we all agreed that immediately after completion of the first round of the Syria discussions, the International Syria Support Group will convene, and that will be very shortly, because we want to keep the process moving.

  2. Narendra Modi:

    What the Edhi family has done is too priceless to be measured but I am happy to announce a contribution of one crore rupees to their foundation.

  3. Roger Federer:

    Excited to announce that I will be coming back to Germany for the Mercedes Cup in June, looking forward to seeing you at the grass courts in Stuttgart!

  4. Ken Welch:

    ( Romney) did everything he could -- probably more than any man in America -- to get Hillary Clinton elected, he had national news conferences, and spoke on Fox News, to announce that Donald Trump was a fraud, he was a lousy business man. He's a' Never Trumper,'.

  5. Matthew Belloni:

    This year's Oscar best picture race is as wide open as I have ever seen it, if 'Roma' wins best picture, it will be a watershed moment for Netflix. It will announce the day they have arrived.

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