declare

See also: declaré, déclaré, and déclare

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French declarer, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dēclārō (“to make clear”), from dē- + clārus (“clear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈkleə/
• IPA^(key): /dɪˈklɛɚ/, /dəˈklɛɚ/

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Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XV:

     Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare unto us thys parable.

   • (Can we date this quote by Boyle and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     To declare this a little, we must assume that the surfaces of all such bodies […] are exactly smooth.

2. (intransitive) To make a declaration.
3. (card games) To show one's cards in order to score.
4. (transitive) To announce one’s support, choice, opinion, etc.

   He declared him innocent.

5. (intransitive, cricket) For the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete even though all batsmen have not been dismissed.
6. (transitive) To announce something formally or officially.

   declare bankruptcy

   declare victory

   (cricket) declare (an innings) closed

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     One South Korean opposition party called on Moon to declare the current air pollution problem a national disaster.

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7. (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result

   Houghton and Sunderland South was the first constituency to declare in the 2015 general election.

8. (transitive) To affirm or state something emphatically.
9. (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
   • 1984, Richard Woodbury and Anastasia Toufexis, "Law: The Trouble with Harry," Time, 2 April:

     The prosecution has introduced evidence, including canceled checks, to show that the judge failed to declare part of his income.

10. (transitive) To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.
11. (transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.

    The counter "i" was declared as an integer.

Synonyms

• (to make a declaration): disclose, make known; See also Thesaurus:announce

Derived terms

Terms derived from declare

• aforedeclared
• declarable
• declarant
• declaration

• declarative
• declaratory

• declarer
• declare war
• I declare
• I do declare

Translations

to make clear, explain

• French: expliquer (fr)
• Hungarian: értelmez (hu), kifejt (hu), megmagyaráz (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: explicar (es), aclarar (es)

to make a declaration

• Bulgarian: декларирам (bg) (deklariram)
• Catalan: declarar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 宣布 (syun¹ bou³)

  Hakka: 宣布 (siên-pu)

  Mandarin: 宣布 (zh) (xuānbù)

  Min Nan: 宣布 (soan-pò͘)

• Czech: deklarovat
• Danish: proklamere, erklære
• Dutch: verklaren (nl)
• Esperanto: deklari (eo)
• Estonian: kuulutama (et)
• Finnish: julistaa (fi), ilmoittaa (fi)
• French: déclarer (fr)
• German: bekanntmachen, bekanntgeben (de), deklarieren (de)
• Greek: ανακοινώνω (el) (anakoinóno)
• Hungarian: kijelent (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: deklarar (io)
• Italian: dichiarare (it)
• Latin: ēloquor (la)
• Lingala: sakola
• Maori: whakapuaki
• Norman: dêcliather
• Portuguese: declarar (pt)
• Romanian: a declara (ro)
• Russian: деклари́ровать (ru) (deklarírovatʹ), объявля́ть (ru) (obʺjavljátʹ)
• Spanish: declarar (es)
• Swedish: deklarera (sv)
• Ukrainian: декларува́ти (deklaruváty), оголо́шувати (uk) (oholóšuvaty)

to announce one's support, choice, opinion, etc

• Bulgarian: провъзгласявам (bg) (provǎzglasjavam), заявявам (bg) (zajavjavam)
• Catalan: declarar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宣布 (zh) (xuānbù)

• Dutch: verklaren (nl)
• Finnish: julistaa (fi), ilmoittaa (fi)
• French: déclarer (fr)
• German: ausrufen (de), aussagen (de), erklären (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: nyilvánít (hu), kinyilvánít (hu)
• Italian: dichiarare (it)
• Korean: 선언하다 (seoneonhada)
• Latin: eloquor (la)
• Norman: dêcliather
• Portuguese: declarar (pt)
• Romanian: a declara (ro)
• Swedish: deklarera (sv)
• Ukrainian: декларува́ти (deklaruváty), заявля́ти (zajavljáty)

cricket: for the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete

• Latin: eloquor (la)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to announce something formally or officially

• Belarusian: аб'яўля́ць impf (abʺjaŭljácʹ), аб'яві́ць pf (abʺjavícʹ)
• Bulgarian: обявявам (bg) (objavjavam), заявявам (bg) (zajavjavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宣布 (zh) (xuānbù)

• Dutch: verklaren (nl)
• Finnish: julistaa (fi), ilmoittaa (fi)
• French: déclarer (fr)
• German: bekanntmachen, bekanntgeben (de), deklarieren (de), verkünden (de)
• Greek: δηλώνω (el) (dilóno)
• Hungarian: nyilatkozik (hu), kijelent (hu), kinyilvánít (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: dichiarare (it)
• Latin: eloquor (la)
• Maori: whakapuaki
• Norman: dêcliather
• Portuguese: declarar (pt)
• Romanian: a declara (ro)
• Russian: объявля́ть (ru) (obʺjavljátʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: (war) gairm
• Swedish: deklarera (sv)
• Ukrainian: оголо́шувати (uk) (oholóšuvaty), заявля́ти (zajavljáty)

to affirm or state something emphatically

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宣布 (zh) (xuānbù)

• Dutch: verklaren (nl)
• Finnish: julistaa (fi)
• French: déclarer (fr)
• German: feststellen (de), deklarieren (de), erklären (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: kijelent (hu), nyilatkozik (hu)
• Italian: dichiarare (it)
• Latin: eloquor (la)
• Norman: dêcliather
• Portuguese: declarar (pt)
• Swedish: deklarera (sv)

To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.

• Bulgarian: декларирам (bg) (deklariram)
• Dutch: aangeven (nl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: verzollen (de)
• Latin: eloquor (la)

in programming

• Danish: erklære
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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)} اَعْلَنَ (aʕlana)
• Belarusian: ^{(please verify)} аб'яві́ць (abʺjavícʹ)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} להצהיר (lehatzhyr)
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 宣言する (sengen suru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 선언하다 (seoneonhada)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} dēclārō
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} اظهار (fa) (azhâr), ^{(please verify)} روشنگری (roshangari)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} declarar (es)

Anagrams

• cedrela, cleared, creedal, relaced

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Portuguese

Verb

declare

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Spanish

Verb

declare

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of declarar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of declarar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of declarar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of declarar.