Announce
Pronunciation
- US IPA: /ʌˈnaʊns/
- UK IPA: /əˈnaʊns/, /ˈæ.naʊns/
- Rhymes: -aÊŠns
Origin
From Old French anoncier, from Latin annuntiare, from ad + nūntiŠ("report, relate"), from nūntius ("messenger, bearer of news"). See nuncio, and compare with annunciate.
Full definition of announce
Verb
- (transitive) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
- unknown date William Gilpin (1724-1804)Her Elizabeth’s arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
- 1927, F. E. Penny, Pulling the Strings Chapter 4, Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. … His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
- 2013-06-08, Obama goes troll-hunting, The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
- (transitive) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
- Mathew Prior (1664-1721)
- Publish laws, announce
Or life or death.
Synonyms
- proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgate