announcement as a noun: - 1
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announcement
noun
1 announcement
A formal public statement:
— The government made an announcement about changes in the drug war.
synonyms: annunciation, declaration, proclamation.
Roget 511:
prediction,
announcement;
program,
programme [Brit.]
etc.
(plan)
626;
premonition
etc.
(warning)
668;
prognosis,
prophecy,
vaticination,
mantology†,
prognostication,
premonstration†;
augury,
auguration†;
ariolation†,
hariolation†;
foreboding,
aboding†;
bodement†,
abodement†;
omniation†,
omniousness†;
auspices,
forecast;
omen
etc.
512;
horoscope,
nativity;
sooth†,
soothsaying;
fortune telling,
crystal gazing;
divination;
necromancy
etc.
992.
[Divination by the stars]
astrology†,
horoscopy†,
judicial astrology†.
[Place of Prediction].
adytum
prefiguration†,
prefigurement;
prototype,
type.
[person who predicts]
oracle
etc.
513.
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Roget 527:
information,
enlightenment,
acquaintance,
knowledge
etc.
490;
publicity
etc.
531;
data
etc.
467.
communication,
intimation;
notice,
notification;
enunciation,
annunciation;
announcement;
communiqu_e;
representation,
round robin,
presentment.
case,
estimate,
specification,
report,
advice,
monition;
news
etc.
532;
return
etc.
(record)
551;
account
etc.
(description)
594;
statement
etc.
(affirmation)
535.
mention;
acquainting
etc.
v.;
instruction
etc.
(teaching)
537;
outpouring;
intercommunication,
communicativeness.
informant,
authority,
teller,
intelligencer†,
reporter,
exponent,
mouthpiece;
informer,
eavesdropper,
delator,
detective;
sleuth;
mouchard†,
spy,
newsmonger;
messenger
etc.
534;
amicus curiae [Lat.].
valet de place,
cicerone,
pilot,
guide;
guidebook,
handbook;
vade mecum [Lat.];
manual;
map,
plan,
chart,
gazetteer;
itinerary
etc.
(journey)
266.
hint,
suggestion,
innuendo,
inkling,
whisper,
passing word,
word in the ear,
subaudition†,
cue,
byplay;
gesture
etc.
(indication)
550;
gentle hint,
broad hint;
verbum sapienti [Lat.],
a word to the wise;
insinuation
etc.
(latency)
526.
information theory.
[units of information]
bit,
byte,
word,
doubleword [Comp.],
quad word,
paragraph,
segment.
[information storage media]
magnetic media,
paper medium,
optical media;
random access memory,
RAM;
read-only memory,
ROM;
write once read mostly memory,
WORM.
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Dutch: afkondiging, uitvaardiging
Polish: proklamacja
2 announcement
A public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen:
— The announcement appeared in the local newspaper.
synonym: promulgation.
Dutch: aankondiging, notificatie
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