announce
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Latin nūntius
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin nūntiō
Latin adnūntiō
Latin annūntiōder.
Old French anoncierder.
English announce
From Old French anoncier, from Latin annūntiāre, from ad + nūntiō (“report, relate”), from nūntius (“messenger, bearer of news”). See nuncio. Doublet of annunciate. See also an-.
Affixes: an-#Etymology_4
Inflected forms:
form: announces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: announcing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: announced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: announced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: announce
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: announce
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: announced
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: announce
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: announcest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: announced
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: announcedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: announces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: announceth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: announced
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: announce
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: announced
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: announce
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: announced
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: announce
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: announcing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: announced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
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.
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.
gloss: To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.
gloss: To act as announcer for (an event, usually sports).
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: Our coach has retired, but occasionally he still announces the games.
gloss: To act or work as an announcer.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
examples: Our coach has retired, but occasionally he still announces.
Synonyms: announce
forerun
blare
declare
disclose
herald
impart
make known
publish
proclaim
promulgate
promulge
Antonyms: withhold
Derived words: announceable
announcement
announcer
back announce
back-announce
foreannounce
knock-and-announce
preannounce
pre-announce
reannounce
unannounced
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