announce

English

Etymology

From Old French anoncier, from Latin annūntiāre, from ad + nūntiō (“report, relate”), from nūntius (“messenger, bearer of news”). See nuncio, and compare with annunciate.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ə-nouns', IPA^(key): /əˈnaʊns/
• (UK) enPR: ə-nouns', IPA^(key): /əˈnaʊns/; enPR: ă'nouns, IPA^(key): /ˈæ.naʊns/

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• Rhymes: -aʊns

Verb

announce (third-person singular simple present announces, present participle announcing, simple past and past participle announced)

1. (transitive) to give public notice, especially for the first time; to make known
   • c. 1780 William Gilpin, 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.

   • 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:

     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 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

     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.

   Synonyms: proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgate

2. (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

Conjugation

Conjugation of announce

infinitive	(to) announce
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	announce	announced
2nd-person singular	announce, announcest†	announced, announcedst†
3rd-person singular	announces, announceth†	announced
plural	announce
subjunctive	announce	announced
imperative	announce	—
participles	announcing	announced

^†Archaic or obsolete.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:announce

Derived terms

• announcement
• announcer
• back announce
• back-announce
• foreannounce
• preannounce, pre-announce
• unannounced

 

Translations

give public notice

• Albanian: shpall (sq), njoftoj (sq)
• Arabic: أَعْلَنَ‎ (ar) (ʔaʕlana)

  Egyptian Arabic: اعلن‎ (aʕlan)

• Asturian: anunciar
• Belarusian: аб'яўля́ць impf (abʺjaŭljácʹ), аб'яві́ць pf (abʺjavícʹ), паведамля́ць impf (pavjedamljácʹ), паве́даміць pf (pavjédamicʹ)
• Bulgarian: съобщавам (bg) (sǎobštavam), обявявам (bg) (objavjavam), уведомявам (bg) (uvedomjavam)
• Catalan: anunciar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通告 (zh) (tōnggào), 公布 (zh) (gōngbù), 公告 (zh) (gōnggào), 宣布 (zh) (xuānbù)

• Czech: oznámit (cs)
• Dutch: aankondigen (nl), declareren (nl), verkonden (nl) (archaic), verkondigen (nl)
• Esperanto: anonci (eo)
• Finnish: ilmoittaa (fi), kuuluttaa (fi)
• French: annoncer (fr)
• Galician: anunciar
• German: ankündigen (de), verkünden (de), bekanntgeben (de), verkündigen (de), verlauten (de)
• Greek: ανακοινώνω (el) (anakoinóno)

  Ancient: ἀγγέλλω (angéllō)

• Haitian Creole: anonse
• Hebrew: להודיע‎ (le'hodya)
• Hungarian: bejelent (hu), kihirdet (hu), közöl (hu)
• Ido: anuncar (io)
• Italian: annunciare (it), segnalare (it)
• Japanese: 発表する (ja) (happyō-suru), 知らせる (ja) (shiraseru)
• Kazakh: хабарлама беру (xabarlama beru)
• Korean: 발표(發表)하다 (ko) (balpyohada), 공포(公布)하다 (gongpohada)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دەربڕین‎ (ku) (derbrrîn)

• Latin: adnuntiō, annuntiō, condīcō
• Lingala: sakola
• Maori: tauākī
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kunngjøre (no)

• Occitan: anonciar (oc)
• Old English: wēman, ābēodan, bēodan
• Old Occitan: anunciar
• Persian: اعلام کردن‎ (fa) (e'lâm kardan), علنیدن‎ (fa)
• Polish: ogłaszać (pl) impf, ogłosić (pl) pf, oznajmiać (pl) impf, oznajmić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: anunciar (pt)
• Quechua: willay
• Romanian: anunța (ro), vesti (ro)
• Russian: объявля́ть (ru) impf (obʺjavljátʹ), объяви́ть (ru) pf (obʺjavítʹ), сообща́ть (ru) impf (soobščátʹ), сообщи́ть (ru) pf (soobščítʹ)
• Sanskrit: शंसति (sa) (śaṃsati)
• Spanish: anunciar (es)
• Swahili: kutangaza
• Swedish: tillkännage (sv), annonsera (sv), annonsera ut (sv)
• Thai: ประกาศ (th) (bprà-gàat), แถลง (th) (tà-lɛ̌ɛng), แจ้ง (th) (jɛ̂ɛng), ป่าว (th) (bpàao)
• Tocharian B: āks-
• Ukrainian: оголо́шувати (uk) impf (oholóšuvaty), оголоси́ти pf (oholosýty), заявля́ти impf (zajavljáty), заяви́ти pf (zajavýty), повідомля́ти impf (povidomljáty), повідо́мити pf (povidómyty)
• Zazaki: êlan, anons kerden

declare by judicial sentence

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宣判 (zh) (xuānpàn)

• Dutch: declareren (nl), verklaren (nl), uitspreken (nl)
• Finnish: julistaa (fi)
• German: verkünden (de), bekanntgeben (de), bekanntmachen
• Hebrew: להודיע‎ (le'hodya)
• Hungarian: nyilvánít (hu)
• Italian: pronunciare (it)
• Portuguese: pronunciar (pt)
• Russian: оглаша́ть (ru) (oglašátʹ), объявля́ть (ru) (obʺjavljátʹ)
• Spanish: declarar (es)
• Swedish: tillkännage (sv)
• Thai: ประกาศ (th) (bprà-gàat), แถลง (th) (tà-lɛ̌ɛng)
• Zazaki: qerar dayen

References

• announce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913