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Synonyms for announce

Most common

declare publish herald proclaim foretell harbinger judge

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Declare — to give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known

declare, publish, herald, proclaim, make known, introduce, post, notify, advertise, advertize US, say, reveal, tell, come out with, speak, promulgate, report, disclose, intimate, state, communicate, enunciate, sound

2. Foretell

foretell, harbinger, annunciate formal, prefigure

3. Judge — to pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence

judge, adjudicate

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known.

  2. v. 2

    To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

  3. v. 3

    To act as announcer for (an event, usually sports).

    Our coach has retired, but occasionally he still announces the games.

Related words

Word family
announceable announcement announcer
Phrases
back announce
Is a kind of
communicate

Forms

Past participle
announced
e.g. announced → declared, published, heralded, proclaimed…

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or Announce?

To announce is to give intelligence of in some formal or public way. We may announce that which has occurred or that which is to occur, tho the word is chiefly used in the anticipative sense; we announce a book when it is in press, a guest when he arrives.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • publish Now, researchers publish their work in open access.
  • declare I hereby declare the opening of the Olympic Games.
  • herald It was the lark, the herald of the morn, no nightingale.
  • proclaim Gentlemen! Tomorrow we shall proclaim the Republic.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
announcesteady
publishsteady
declaresteady
heraldrising
proclaimsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
say1
4 letters
tell1, post1
5 letters
state1, sound1, speak1, judge1
6 letters
report2, reveal2, herald2, notify3, denote2
7 letters
publish2, declare2, premise2
8 letters
intimate3, disclose2, proclaim2, foretell2, propound2
9 letters
introduce3, advertise3, harbinger3, enunciate4, prefigure, advertize
10 letters
adjudicate4, promulgate3, annunciate
11 letters
communicate4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (report2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
annoncer
Italiano
annunciare
Español
anunciar
Deutsch
annoncieren