announcer

English

Etymology

From announce +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈnaʊnsə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈnaʊnsɚ/
• Rhymes: -aʊnsə(ɹ)

Noun

announcer (plural announcers)

1. One who makes announcements.
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Andros Townsend calms England's nerves in taming of Montenegro (in The Guardian, 11 October 2013)[1]

     There were passing moments when it threatened to be a difficult night and, with the game goalless at half-time, the stadium announcer sounded almost apologetic when he relayed the news that Ukraine, kicking off an hour earlier, had gone to the top of the group by beating Poland.

Translations

announcer

• Arabic: مُذِيع‏‎ m (muḏīʿ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 播音員 (zh), 播音员 (zh) (bōyīnyuán), 廣播員 (zh), 广播员 (zh) (guǎngbōyuán), 報幕員, 报幕员 (bàomùyuán)

• Finnish: kuuluttaja (fi)
• French: annonceur (fr) m, présentateur (fr) m, speaker (fr) m
• German: Ansager m, Sprecher (de) m
• Greek: εκφωνητής (el) m (ekfonitís)

• Hungarian: bemondó (hu)
• Japanese: アナウンサー (anaunsā)
• Korean: 아나운서 (ko) (anaunseo)
• Portuguese: anunciante (pt) m f, anunciador m
• Romanian: anunțător (ro) m (rare), prevestitor (ro) m, vestitor (ro) m
• Russian: ди́ктор (ru) m (díktor)
• Spanish: anunciador m, locutor (es) m

TV or radio announcer

• Dutch: omroeper (nl) m
• Finnish: kuuluttaja (fi)
• Greek: εκφωνητής (el) m (ekfonitís)
• Japanese: アナウンサー (anaunsā)
• Korean: 아나운서 (ko) (anaunseo)
• Maori: kaiwhakataki

• Norman: annonceux m
• Portuguese: locutor (pt) m
• Romanian: prezentator (ro) m, prezentatoare (ro) f, crainic (ro) m, crainică (ro) f,, spicher (ro) m
• Russian: ди́ктор (ru) m (díktor), веду́щий (ru) m (vedúščij), веду́щая (ru) f (vedúščaja)
• Spanish: comentarista m, f