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Webster 1913 Edition


Announce

An-nounce′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Announced
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Announcing
.]
[OF.
anoncier
, F.
annoncer
, fr. L.
annuntiare
;
ad
+
nuntiare
to report, relate,
nuntius
messenger, bearer of news. See
Nuncio
, and cf.
Annunciate
.]
1.
To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
Her [Q. Elizabeth’s] arrival was
announced
through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
Gilpin.
2.
To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
Publish laws,
announce

Or life or death.
Prior.
Syn. – To proclaim; publish; make known; herald; declare; promulgate.
– To
Publish
,
Announce
,
Proclaim
,
Promulgate
. We
publish
what we give openly to the world, either by oral communication or by means of the press;
as, to
publish
abroad the faults of our neighbors
. We
announce
what we declare by anticipation, or make known for the first time; as, to
announce
the speedy publication of a book; to
announce
the approach or arrival of a distinguished personage. We
proclaim
anything to which we give the widest publicity; as, to
proclaim
the news of victory. We
promulgate
when we proclaim more widely what has before been known by some; as, to
promulgate
the gospel.

Webster 1828 Edition


Announce

ANNOUNCE

,
Verb.
T.
announs'. [L. annuncio, to deliver a message, of ad and nuncio, to tell from nuncius, a messenger.]
1.
To publish; to proclaim; to give notice, or first notice; as, the birth of Christ was announced by an angel.
2.
To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

Definition 2024


announce

announce

English

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to 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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  • announce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913