declaration

See also: déclaration

English

Etymology

From Middle English declaration, declaracion, declaracioun, from Old French declaration (French déclaration), from Latin dēclārātiōnem, accusative of Latin dēclārātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɛkləˈɹeɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

declaration (countable and uncountable, plural declarations)

1. An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.
   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility:

     The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair […] .

2. (now rare) Specifically, a declaration of love.
   • 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield:

     I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.

   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 23, in Of Human Bondage:

     He blushed a great deal when the others chaffed him for his obvious preference. He made the first declaration in his life to Fräulein Hedwig, but unfortunately it was an accident […] .

3. A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
4. The act or process of declaring.
5. (cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
6. (law) In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff's cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
7. (computing) The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents.

Quotations

• 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1:

  Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

Synonyms

• (act or process of declaring): notice
• (list of items for legal purposes): notice, statement
• (written or oral indication): avowal, notice, statement

Hyponyms

• (computing): forward declaration

Derived terms

• counterdeclaration
• declaration bowling
• declaration of intent
• declaration of love
• declaration of war
• declaration of will
• dying declaration
• misdeclaration
• nondeclaration
• predeclaration
• redeclaration
• tax declaration
• undeclaration

Related terms

• declare

Translations

written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, or belief

• Albanian: deklaratë f
• Arabic: إِعْلَان m (ʔiʕlān), بَيَان (ar) m (bayān)
• Armenian: հայտարարություն (hy) (haytararutʻyun)
• Assamese: ঘোষণা (ghüxona)
• Asturian: declaración f
• Azerbaijani: bəyannamə (az), deklarasiya
• Belarusian: зая́ва f (zajáva), дэклара́цыя f (deklarácyja), аб'яўле́нне n (abʺjaŭljénnje)
• Bengali: ঘোষণা (bn) (ghōśona)
• Bulgarian: заявле́ние (bg) n (zajavlénie), деклара́ция (bg) f (deklarácija), изявле́ние (bg) n (izjavlénie)
• Catalan: declaració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聲明 / 声明 (zh) (shēngmíng)

• Coptic: ⲟⲩⲱⲛϩ m (ouōnh), ⲟⲙⲟⲗⲟⲅⲓⲁ f (omologia)
• Czech: prohlášení (cs) n, vyhlášení n
• Danish: erklæring c
• Dutch: verklaring (nl) f, declaratie (nl) f
• Esperanto: deklaro, deklaracio
• Estonian: avaldus, deklaratsioon
• Finnish: julistus (fi), tiedoksianto (fi)
• French: déclaration (fr) f
• Galician: declaración (gl) f
• Georgian: განცხადება (gancxadeba), დეკლარაცია (deḳlaracia)
• German: Erklärung (de) f, Deklaration (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌹𐌽𐍃𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 f (insahts)
• Greek: κύρηξη (kýrixi), διακύρηξη (diakýrixi)
• Hebrew: הַצְהָרָה f (hats'hará)
• Hungarian: nyilatkozat (hu)
• Ido: deklaro (io)
• Indonesian: deklarasi (id)
• Italian: dichiarazione (it) f, asserzione (it) f, voto (it) m, conferma (it) f, enunciazione (it) f
• Japanese: 宣言 (ja) (せんげん, sengen)
• Kazakh: мәлімдеме (mälımdeme)
• Korean: 선언(宣言) (ko) (seoneon)
• Latin: fatum n
• Latvian: paziņojums m, deklarācija f
• Lithuanian: pareiškimas m, deklaracija f
• Macedonian: изјава f (izjava), декларација f (deklaracija)
• Malay: perisytiharan
• Marathi: घोषणा f (ghoṣṇā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: erklæring (no) m or f, deklarasjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: erklæring f, deklarasjon m

• Persian: اعلام (fa) (e'lâm), اعلامیه (fa) (e'lâmiye)
• Polish: deklaracja (pl) f, oświadczenie (pl)
• Portuguese: declaração (pt) f
• Romanian: declarație (ro) f
• Russian: заявле́ние (ru) n (zajavlénije), деклара́ция (ru) f (deklarácija), объявле́ние (ru) n (obʺjavlénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: и̏зјава f

  Roman: ȉzjava (sh) f

• Slovak: prehlásenie n, vyhlásenie n
• Slovene: izjava f
• Spanish: declaración (es) f
• Swedish: tillkännagivande (sv)
• Tajik: изҳор (izhor), эълом (eʾlom), эъломия (eʾlomiya)
• Tatar: декларация (deklaratsiyä)
• Tocharian B: weweñor
• Turkish: beyanname (tr), bildirge (tr)
• Turkmen: beýannama (tk)
• Ukrainian: зая́ва f (zajáva), деклара́ція (uk) f (deklarácija), оголо́шення (uk) n (oholóšennja)
• Uzbek: bayonot (uz)
• West Frisian: ferklearring c
• Yiddish: דעקלאַראַציע f (deklaratsye)

list of items for various legal purposes

• Armenian: հայտարարագիր (hy) (haytararagir)
• Azerbaijani: bəyannamə (az)
• Belarusian: дэклара́цыя f (deklarácyja)
• Bulgarian: деклара́ция (bg) f (deklarácija)
• Catalan: declaració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 報單 / 报单 (zh) (bàodān)

• Czech: deklarace (cs) f
• Danish: deklaration c
• Finnish: selvitys (fi)
• French: déclaration (fr) f
• German: Erklärung (de) f, Deklaration (de) f
• Irish: dearbhú m
• Italian: elenco (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بەیان (beyan)

• Latin: fatum n
• Macedonian: декларација f (deklaracija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: deklarasjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: deklarasjon m

• Polish: deklaracja (pl) f
• Portuguese: declaração (pt) f
• Romanian: declarație (ro) f
• Russian: деклара́ция (ru) f (deklarácija)
• Slovak: deklarácia f
• Swedish: deklaration (sv) c
• Turkish: beyanat (tr), bildirge (tr)
• Ukrainian: деклара́ція (uk) f (deklarácija)

act or process of declaring

• Armenian: հայտարարում (hy) (haytararum)
• Asturian: declaración f
• Bulgarian: заявя́ване n (zajavjávane), деклари́ране (bg) n (deklarírane)
• Catalan: declaració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 報單 / 报单 (zh) (bàodān), 宣言 (zh) (xuānyán)

• Czech: vyhlášení n
• Danish: deklaration c
• Finnish: julistus (fi)
• French: déclaration (fr) f
• Galician: declaración (gl) f
• German: Erklärung (de) f, Deklaration (de) f
• Hebrew: הַצְהָרָה f (hats'hará)
• Ido: deklaro (io)
• Latin: fatum n
• Maori: whakapuakanga
• Polish: deklaracja (pl) f, zaświadczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: declaração (pt) f
• Romanian: declarare (ro) f
• Russian: заявле́ние (ru) n (zajavlénije), объявле́ние (ru) n (obʺjavlénije)
• Spanish: declaración (es) f
• Swedish: förklaring (sv), deklaration (sv)

(cricket) act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed

• Greek: διάταγμα (el) (diátagma)
• Latin: fatum n

specification of a variables type

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: deklarace (cs) f
• Finnish: esittely (fi), muuttujan tyypin määrittely, deklaraatio
• German: Deklaration (de) f
• Greek: δήλωση (el) f (dílosi), επιβεβαίωση (el) (epivevaíosi), ανακοίνωση (el) (anakoínosi)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: fatum n
• Russian: объявле́ние (ru) n (obʺjavlénije)
• Turkish: açıklayıcı deyim

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} dichiarazione (it) f
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 선언 (ko) (seoneon)

See also

• complaint
• customs declaration
• statutory
• statutory declaration

Further reading

• declaration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• indacaterol, redactional

Middle French

Noun

declaration f (plural declarations)

1. declaration