Announce
[ə'naʊns]
Definition
(verb.) announce publicly or officially; 'The President declared war'.
(verb.) foreshadow or presage.
(verb.) make known; make an announcement; 'She denoted her feelings clearly'.
(verb.) give the names of; 'He announced the winners of the spelling bee'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
(v. t.) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Publish, proclaim, advertise, communicate, promulgate, declare, report, trumpet, placard, ENOUNCE, enunciate, blaze abroad, spread abroad, give notice of, make proclamation of, lay before the public, bring to the notice of the public.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Declare, propound, give_notice, enunciate, advertise, publish, report, notify,make_known, give_out, reveal, herald, proclaim, intimate, promulgate
ANT:Conceal, suppress, hush, {[rtiflf]?}, withhold, shroud, bury, burke
Checker: Marty
Definition
v.t. to declare: to give public notice of: to make known.—n. Announce′ment.
Checker: Wilmer
Examples
- Not to get up a mystery with these people, I resolved to announce in the morning that my uncle had unexpectedly come from the country. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- His eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce virtue and intelligence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- See what tidings that horn tells us of--to announce, I ween, some hership [12] and robbery which has been done upon my lands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I--I've another arrival to announce, he said after a pause. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It soon appeared that he came to announce an improvement. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Her maid (the person with the cap-ribbons) was sent down-stairs to announce that her headache had returned. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I got into the hall just in time to announce the two first of the guests. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He walked into the dining-room as we sat after dinner, and announced his intention in the thick voice of a half-drunken man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I announced on beginning it that this narrative would be a remarkable document. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was dated from Hampshire on the 25th of July, and it announced the journey of Lady Glyde to London on the 26th. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I have something more to say on my side, he announced, bringing down the flat of his hand on the table with a bang. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I announced myself and was disposed of with the highly satisfactory results embodied before you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mercury has announced Mr. Rouncewell, which is the cause of her appearance. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We were interrupted by an attendant, who announced, that the staff of Raymond was assembled in the council-chamber. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Phil announcing it, Mr. George knocks the ashes out of his pipe on the hob, stands his pipe itself in the chimney corner, and sits down to the meal. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Show us into the room at once, without announcing us,' said the little man, 'and it's yours. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They then signalled the fort, announcing their arrival. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was a bill, pasted on the door-post, announcing a room to let on the second floor. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Show me to Mrs. Winkle's room, without announcing me. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- On the morning of the 26th Percival's letter reached me, announcing his wife's arrival by the midday train. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I then read them Sir Percival's letter of the 25th, announcing his wife's intended journey from Hampshire to London on the 26th. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That bugle-sound announces something which may require my presence. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Daily He announces more distinctly,--'Surely I come quickly! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At length that low roar of many voices ran through the crowd which usually announces the arrival of whatever they have been waiting for. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If you want to see this faith in all its na?veté go into those quaint rationalist circles where Herbert Spencer's ghost announces the laws of life, with only a few inessential details omitted. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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