announcement
/əˈnaʊns.mənt/
announcement noun: an act of announcing, or giving notice.
Noun
announcement (plural announcements)
- 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."
- Where else in the world can you pre-order sushi and fondue on some of the trains, travel in family carriages equipped with mini-playgrounds, or use a request stop button at some small stations? Where else can you hear the announcement: "The train at Platform 4 is ten minutes late due to an incident...2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68
- That which conveys what is announced.
- This announcement was made during the first training session.
- The content which is announced.
- The announcement implied that somebody needed a spare Toshiba charger.
announcement meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
announcement in Hindi
- that which conveys what is announced
- इश्तहार iśtahār, घोषणा ghoṣṇā, एलान elān
announcement in Tamil
- act
- அறிவிப்பு aṟivippu
- content
- அறிவிப்பு aṟivippu
announcement in Marathi
- announcement
- घोषणा ghoṣṇā
- announcement, proclamation
- जाहिरात jāhirāt
announcement in Urdu
- that which conveys what is announced
- اِعْلان i'lān, اِشْتِہار iśtihār
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- announcement in Bengali
- এলান elan
- announcement in Malayalam
- അറിയിപ്പ് aṟiyippŭ, വിളംബരം viḷambaraṁ, പ്രഖ്യാപനം prakhyāpanaṁ
- announcement in Kannada
- ಘೋಷಣೆ, ಪ್ರಕಟಣೆ, ಉದ್ಘೋಷ, ಮುನ್ಸೂಚನೆ
- announcement in Odia
- ଘୋଷଣା
- announcement in Sanskrit
- घोषणा ghoṣaṇā
- announcement in Assamese
- ঘোষণা ghüxona, জাননী zanoni
- announcement in Nepali
- घोषणा
- announcement in Pashto
- اعلان e'lān, انانس anāns
- announcement in Tagalog
- anunsiyo
- announcement in Arabic
- إِعْلَان ʔiʕlān, بَلَاغ balāḡ, إِبْلَاغ ʔiblāḡ
- announcement in Malay
- pemberitahuan, pengumuman, pemakluman, perisytiharan
- announcement in Indonesian
- pengumuman, pemberitahuan, pemakluman
- announcement in Thai
- การประกาศ gaan-bprà-gàat
- announcement in Vietnamese
- thông báo
- announcement in Myanmar
- ကြေညာချက် kre-nyahkyak
Examples of announcement in a sentence
- If that concludes the announcements, we'll move on to new business.
- Everyone heard the announcement, but not everyone agrees on what the subtext was.
- After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.
Synonyms of announcement
Forms of announcement
| plural | announcements |
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Origin of announcement
From Middle French annoncement. By surface analysis, announce + -ment.
Words formed from announcement
Phrases with announcement
Questions about announcement
- What does announcement mean?
- Announcement means an act of announcing, or giving notice.
- What is announcement in Hindi?
- Announcement in Hindi is इश्तहार (iśtahār), घोषणा (ghoṣṇā), एलान (elān). See Announcement meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is announcement?
- Announcement is a noun.
- How do you pronounce announcement?
- Announcement is pronounced /əˈnaʊns.mənt/ (US).
- What is the plural of announcement?
- The plural of announcement is announcements.
Words near announcement in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: announcement (page history and authors); घोषणा (Marathi) (page history and authors); announcement (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); announcement (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); घोषणा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); ঘোষণা (Assamese) (page history and authors); announcement (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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