announce
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French anoncier, from Latin annūntiāre, from ad + nūntiō (“report, relate”), from nūntius (“messenger, bearer of news”). See nuncio, and compare with annunciate.
PronunciationEdit
- (US) enPR: ə-nouns', IPA(key): /əˈnaʊns/
- (UK) enPR: ə-nouns', IPA(key): /əˈnaʊns/; enPR: ă'nouns, IPA(key): /ˈæ.naʊns/
Audio (United States) (file) - Rhymes: -aʊns
VerbEdit
announce (third-person singular simple present announces, present participle announcing, simple past and past participle announced)
- (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
- c. 1780 William Gilpin, 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
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of announce
infinitive | (to) announce | ||
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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 |
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:announce
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
give public notice
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declare by judicial sentence
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ReferencesEdit
- announce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913