announcement

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “announcement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

announce +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈnaʊns.mɛnt/

• Audio (US, California):

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Noun

announcement (plural announcements)

1. An act of announcing, or giving notice.

   He raised his hand to make his announcement and said "Excuse me everyone, I have an announcement to make."

2. That which conveys what is announced.

   This announcement was made during the first training session.

3. The content which is announced.

   The announcement implied that somebody needed a spare Toshiba charger.

Synonyms

• proclamation
• publication

Translations

act

• Armenian: հայտարարում (hy) (haytararum)
• Azerbaijani: elan (az), elan etmə, elan edilmə, bildirmə
• Finnish: ilmoitus (fi), tiedottaminen (fi)
• French: annoncement (fr) m
• Galician: pregón m, anuncio m
• Greek: ανακοίνωση (el) f (anakoínosi)
• Hungarian: bejelentés (hu), kihirdetés (hu)
• Ido: anunco (io)
• Interlingue:
• Italian: annuncio (it) m
• Malay: pemberitahuan, pengumuman, pemakluman
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: whakapuakanga
• Portuguese: anúncio (pt) m, pronunciamento (pt) m
• Quechua: willay
• Romanian: anunț (ro) n
• Russian: объявле́ние (ru) n (obʺjavlénije)
• Spanish: anuncio (es) m, declaración (es) f
• Swahili: tangazo (sw)
• Thai: การประกาศ (kaan-prà-gàd)
• Turkish: ilan (tr), beyan (tr)

that which conveys what is announced

• Armenian: հայտարարություն (hy) (haytararutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: elan (az), bildiriş (az)
• Danish: bekendtgørelse (da)
• Dutch: bekendmaking (nl)
• Esperanto: anoncilo
• Finnish: ilmoitus (fi), tiedotus (fi)
• French: annonce (fr) f
• German: Bekanntmachung (de) f
• Greek: ανακοίνωση (el) f (anakoínosi), αγγελτήριο (el) n (angeltírio)
• Hungarian: közlemény (hu), hirdetmény (hu), bejelentés (hu)
• Ido: anuncajo (io)
• Italian: annuncio (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: pemberitahuan, pengumuman, perisytiharan
• Maori: pānuitanga
• Norwegian: bekjentgørelse
• Portuguese: anúncio (pt) m
• Russian: объявле́ние (ru) n (obʺjavlénije)
• Swahili: tangazo (sw)
• Swedish: kungörelse (sv) c
• Turkish: ilan (tr), beyan (tr)

content

• Armenian: հայտարարություն (hy) (haytararutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: elan (az), bildiriş (az)
• Finnish: ilmoitus (fi), tiedotus (fi)
• Greek: ανακοίνωση (el) f (anakoínosi)
• Hungarian: közlemény (hu), hirdetmény (hu), bejelentés (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: annuncio (it) m
• Malay: pemberitahuan, pengumuman, makluman, pernyataan
• Portuguese: anúncio (pt) m
• Russian: объявле́ние (ru) n (obʺjavlénije)
• Turkish: ilan (tr), beyan (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} اِعْلَام (ar) m (iʕlām), ^{(please verify)} إعلان
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} съобщение (bg) (sǎobštenie), ^{(please verify)} обявление (bg) (objavlenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 公告 (zh) (gōnggào), ^{(please verify)} 發表／发表 (fābiǎo), ^{(please verify)} 发表 (zh) (fābiǎo)

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} oznámení (cs) n
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} aankondiging (nl) f
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} anoncado
• Ewe: ^{(please verify)} gbeƒãɖeɖe
• German: ^{(please verify)} Ankündigung (de) f
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} הודעה f (hoda'a)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} annuncio (it) m
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 発表 (ja) (happyō), ^{(please verify)} お知らせ (ja) (oshirase)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 발표 (ko) (balpyo)
• Malay: ^{(please verify)} pengumuman
• Maori: ^{(please verify)} pānuitanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ^{(please verify)} kunngjøring (no) m or f, ^{(please verify)} kunngjørelse m

  Nynorsk: ^{(please verify)} kunngjering f

• Oriya: ^{(please verify)} ବିଜ୍ଞପ୍ତି (or) (bijñapti)
• Polish: ^{(please verify)} ogłoszenie (pl) n
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} anunț (ro)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} anunciación f, ^{(please verify)} anuncio (es) m
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} duyuru (tr)

References

• “announcement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “announcement”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.