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notify

US/ˈnoʊtɪfaɪ/

notify verb: to give (someone) notice (of some event).

notify: Brass bell hangs on a colorful door
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Verb

notify (third-person singular simple present notifies, present participle notifying, simple past and past participle notified)

  1. (transitive) To give (someone) notice (of some event).
    • The dispatcher immediately notified the volunteer fire department of the emergency call.
    • Once a decision has been reached and notified to the parties it becomes binding.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To make (something) known.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To make note of (something).

notify meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

notify in Tamil

அறிவி, தெரியப்படுத்து

notify in Urdu

اعلان کرنا, اظہار کرنا, مشتہر کرنا

notify in Bengali

জ্ঞাপন করা, প্রচার করা, বিজ্ঞপ্তি িদেওয়া, বিজ্ঞাপন দেওয়া

notify in Telugu

తెలియజేయడం
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notify in Malayalam
അറിയിപ്പ് നൽകുക, പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കുക, പരസ്യപ്പെടുത്തുക
notify in Kannada
ಸೂಳ್ಗರೆ, ಸೂಳುಗರೆ, ಎಚ್ಚರಿಸು, ತಿಳಿಸು
notify in Punjabi
ਨੋਟੀਫਾਈ ਕਰਨਾ, ਨੋਟੀਫਾਈ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ, ਸੂਚਿਤ ਕਰੋ
notify in Gujarati
સૂચિત કરો
notify in Odia
ଜଣାଇବା jaṇāibā
notify in Tagalog
ipaalam, ipasabi, ipabatid, ipabalita
notify in Arabic
أَخْبَرَ ʔaḵbara, أَبْلَغَ ʔablaḡa
notify in Indonesian
memberitahu
notify in Thai
แจ้งความ jɛ̂ɛng-kwaam

Examples of notify in a sentence

  • You don't need to notify the linkee whenever you link to a website.
  • Lord Bentley has passed away; notify the next of kin.
  • Once the view model has data requested by the user's event, it notifies and updates the view.

All 40 example sentences with notify

Synonyms of notify

Forms of notify

third-person singular presentnotifies
present participlenotifying
past participlenotified
pastnotified

Past tense of notify: notified

Origin of notify

From Middle English notifien, a borrowing from Old French notifier, notefiier.

Words formed from notify

Questions about notify

What does notify mean?
Notify means to give (someone) notice (of some event).
What is notify in Tamil?
Notify in Tamil is அறிவி, தெரியப்படுத்து. See Notify meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is notify?
Notify is a verb.
How do you pronounce notify?
Notify is pronounced /ˈnoʊtɪfaɪ/ (US).
What is the past tense of notify?
The past tense of notify is notified.

Words near notify in the dictionary

  1. notifier
  2. notifiers
  3. notifies
  4. notifieth
  5. notifs
  6. notify
  7. notifyee
  8. notifyees
  9. notifying
  10. noting
  11. noting down

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: notify (page history and authors); notify (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); notify (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); notify (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); notify (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); notify (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); notify (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); notify (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); notify (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଜଣାଇବା (Odia) (page history and authors). 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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