announce

UK/əˈnaʊns/US/əˈnaʊn(t)s/

verbB13 meanings Common in everyday speech and writing · #2,478 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: announced, announcing, announces

To announce something is to tell everyone at once, and to make it official. A company announces its results, a station announces that the 8:14 is running late, two people announce that they are getting married.

What you announce is settled business: you announce a decision after you have made it, not while you are still weighing it up. The noun is announcement, and the voice reading the news out is an announcer. Watch the grammar — you announce something to somebody, and you announce that something has happened. You do not announce somebody about something; that verb is inform. The word also stretches to a person walking in and saying a thing flatly, as if it were news: he announced he was leaving, and nobody argued.

Definitions of announce

1verbspeechTo make something known officially and publicly.B1~76%
“The school announced that it would close for a week.”
synonyms: declare, proclaim
2verbannounceTo read out news, times or results to the people in front of you.B1~15%
“They announced our flight while we were still queueing.”
3verbfirmlyTo say something firmly, so that everyone in the room hears it.B1~9%
“She walked in and announced that she had quit.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 65 sentences found in the wild and placed 65 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.

Also practised as

verbTo make something known publicly.

Where it comes from

Behind announce stands the Latin nūntius, a messenger, the man who turns up carrying the news. Put ad, towards, in front of him and you get annuntio: to bring the message to somebody. The pope's own messenger is still called a nuncio.

Old French
anoncier
English, today
announce

Built from

nūntiō · Latin — report, relate
nūntius · Latin — messenger, bearer of news

From Old French anoncier. From Old French anoncier, from Latin annuntio, from ad + nūntiō (“report, relate”), from nūntius (“messenger, bearer of news”). See nuncio. a doublet of annunciate. See also an-.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Sharper Verbs, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 3 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word

announce in the wild

In March 2016, drummer Tom Hane announced his departure from the band and was replaced by Kent Diimmel, formerly of 3 by Design.
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On April 20, 2009, it was announced that Oracle would acquire Sun for US$7.4 billion, or US$5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt.
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On February 4, 2019, Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners announced it would purchase Ultimate Software Group for $11 billion; the purchase closed on May 3, 2019.
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For security reasons, the U.S. military does not announce a DEFCON level to the public.
DEFCON
In 1944, on D-Day, Dupuy was the first to announce on radio that the invasion of Normandy was taking place.
Richard Ernest Dupuy

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Related words

the nūntiō family

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Definitions of announce

1verbspeechTo make something known officially and publicly.B1~76%

“The school announced that it would close for a week.”

synonyms: declare, proclaim

2verbannounceTo read out news, times or results to the people in front of you.B1~15%

“They announced our flight while we were still queueing.”

3verbfirmlyTo say something firmly, so that everyone in the room hears it.B1~9%

“She walked in and announced that she had quit.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 65 sentences found in the wild and placed 65 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.