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/ənˈaʊns/ Listen

verb

Announce v. t. (past & past part. announced; pres. part. announcing)

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."

To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence. "Publish laws, announce Or life or death."

Synonyms: 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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Announce" Quotes from Famous Books

... to ask. I'm sorry,' said the Queen. 'And of course they wouldn't announce her unless I told them to, except during justice hours. I expect she's ...

— The Story of the Amulet • E. Nesbit

... cheerfully. "Just so as to avoid any argument, I'll announce right now that Jack Flatray is going to see ...

— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine

... attention paid to cotton-culture in other parts of the world would prove injurious to the South after the war should be ended. They had abandoned their early belief that their cotton was king, and dreaded the crash that was to announce the ...

— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox

... business, but he has had to promise father that he would go into his office if at the end of a year he had had no encouragement to persevere in literature. But how is a young unknown poet to make himself known? The magazines announce that they can accept no unsolicited poetical contributions; the publishers laugh at the idea of bringing out a book by a man of whom no one has heard. A boy might be a second Shakespeare, but no one ...

— Big Game - A Story for Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... I felt that these kindly girls, to whom I had looked with so much admiration in the classes at school and in our various little gatherings, were infinitely more worthy of the divine favor than was the big, fleshly creature storming and raging and claiming to announce a divine message. ...

— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White

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