announce

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ʌˈnaʊns/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈnaʊns/, /ˈæ.naʊns/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • 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
    Synonym: proclaim
    • (Can we date this quote?) William Gilpin (1724-1804)
      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.
  2. (transitive) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
      Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.

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References

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