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declare

UK/dɪˈklɛə//dɪˈklɛɚ/

declare verb: to make clear, explain, interpret.

Verb

declare (third-person singular simple present declares, present participle declaring, simple past and past participle declared)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.
    • Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare unto us thys parable.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew
    • To declare this a little, vve muſt aſſume, that the Surfaces of all ſuch Bodies, […] are exactly ſmooth only in a popular, or at moſt in a Phyſical ſenſe, but not in a ſtrict and rigid ſenſe.1664, Robert Boyle, chapter III, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. […], London: […] Henry Herringman […], →OCLC, part I, page 26
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
    • He declared him innocent.
    • declare bankruptcy
  3. (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
    • The prosecution has introduced evidence, including canceled checks, to show that the judge failed to declare part of his income.1984 April 2, Richard Woodbury, Anastasia Toufexis, “Law: The Trouble with Harry”, in Time
  4. To show one's cards in order to score.
  5. (intransitive) 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.
  6. The decision of the captain to let the bowling side bat in test cricket to save time without being all out.
    • He declared at 689-7.
  7. (transitive) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.
    • The counter "i" was declared as an integer.
  8. (slang, grand strategy games) To declare war.
    • France declared on me, I'm finished!
  9. (particularly Evangelicalism) To state that a thing shall happen or affirm a condition in the hopes of seeing it happen spiritually, in contrast to prayer which takes the form of a request.
    • He prayed to God "please heal my sister", while she declared "I am healed in Jesus' name".

declare meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

declare in Hindi

घोषणा करना, घोषित करना

declare in Tamil

அறிவி, தெரிவு

declare in Marathi

to declare, bid
सांगणे sāṅgṇe

declare in Urdu

بیان دینا, بیان کرنا, اعلان کرنا, اظہار کرنا, مشہور کرنا
More languagesFewer languages
declare in Bengali
রঙ দেখান, ধরা
declare in Telugu
భీష్మించు bhīṣmiñcu, ఎఱిగించు eṟigiñcu
declare in Malayalam
വിധിക്കുക vidhikkuka
declare in Kannada
ಘೋಷಿಸು ghōṣisu
declare in Punjabi
متھنا mitthṇā
declare in Odia
ଘୋଷଣା କରିବା
declare in Sanskrit
शंसति śaṃsati
declare in Thai
เปิดเผย bpə̀ət-pə̌əi, ประกาศ bprà-gàat
declare in Vietnamese
ban bố, ban hành, tuyên bố

Examples of declare in a sentence

  • declare independence
  • declare an innings closed
  • I'll declare for the presidency.
  • God does not play dice with the world, he declared.1989 May, John Boslough, “Searching for the Secrets of Gravity”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 576:
  • One South Korean opposition party called on Moon to declare the current air pollution problem a national disaster.2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

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Synonyms of declare

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Antonyms

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Forms of declare

third-person singular presentdeclares
present participledeclaring
past participledeclared
pastdeclared
second-person singular present (archaic)declarest
second-person singular past (archaic)declaredst
third-person singular present (archaic)declareth

Past tense of declare: declared

Origin of declare

From Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, from Latin dēclārō (“to make clear”), from dē- + clārus (“clear”).

Words formed from declare

Words that rhyme with declare

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Questions about declare

What does declare mean?
Declare means to make clear, explain, interpret.
What is declare in Hindi?
Declare in Hindi is घोषणा करना, घोषित करना. See Declare meaning in Hindi.
How do you use declare in a sentence?
declare independence
What part of speech is declare?
Declare is a verb.
How do you pronounce declare?
Declare is pronounced /dɪˈklɛə/ (UK).
What is the past tense of declare?
The past tense of declare is declared.

Words near declare in the dictionary

  1. declaratorily
  2. declarators
  3. declaratory
  4. declaratory judgment
  5. declaratory judgments
  6. declare
  7. declare against
  8. declare war
  9. declared
  10. declared abundance
  11. declared war

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: declare (page history and authors); declare (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); declare (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); सांगणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); declare (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); declare (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఎఱిగించు (Telugu) (page history and authors); വിധിക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಘೋಷಿಸು (Kannada) (page history and authors); متھنا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); declare (Odia, 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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