Other forms: announcements
An announcement is an official public statement. Make an announcement, an announcement over the tannoy, the announcement was delayed.
It is the standard word for what is said over a station or airport public address system, and for formal news from a government or company. It also names the printed notice of a birth, marriage or death in a newspaper. The verb is announce, and the pattern is announce that or announce something — never announce somebody something. Note announcer, meaning a broadcaster who introduces programmes.
1nounannouncementAn official public statement.
“The announcement came about an hour after the markets closed.”
announcement is a public statement.
French annoncer comes from Latin annuntiare — ad-, to, plus nuntius, a messenger. The same nuntius gives pronounce, denounce and nuncio, and every one of them is about carrying a message to somebody.
Middle French
annoncement
English, today
announcement
From Middle French annoncement. by surface analysis, announce + -ment.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA