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Announcement   /ənˈaʊnsmənt/  /ənˈaʊnsmɛnt/   Listen
Announcement

noun
1.
A formal public statement.  Synonyms: annunciation, declaration, proclamation.  "A declaration of independence"
2.
A public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen.  Synonym: promulgation.  "The promulgation was written in English"






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"Announcement" Quotes from Famous Books



... far better specimen of the present, than foundations of long walls, ruined temples, and statues without noses, can possibly be of the past. He informed me he was a sailor: by so doing, he did not prove to me that he estimated my discernment very highly, for that fact required no announcement. He added, however, what was more instructive; to wit, that he had received the droschky with the horses, that morning, from a Russian captain, in payment of a bad debt. He had resolved to improviso ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various

... her bill and went back, via the bus, to Sylvia. She ran up the long flights of stairs and burst in upon Sylvia with the announcement that "nothing would count if you didn't have someone to come home and tell it to." And then she forgot her glooms while they prepared an evening meal more conservative ...
— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock

... counsels. Death, however, closed his prosperous, but laborious life. He suffered agonies from the stone; large doses of opium kept him in a state of stupor, and alone gave him ease; but his strength failed, and he was warned to prepare himself for his decease. He bore the announcement with great fortitude, and took leave of his children in perfect resignation to his doom. He died on the 28th ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 2 • Grace & Philip Wharton

... within me when I read that announcement. Yet on calmer consideration, I resolved to still wait ...
— The Stretton Street Affair • William Le Queux

... with the tale of evil fortune; and clearly for the reason that man's livelier half is ever alert to speed them. They travel with an astonishing celerity over the land, like flames of the dry beacon-faggots of old time in announcement of the invader or a conquest, gathering as they go: wherein, to say nothing of their vastly wider range, they surpass the electric wires. Man's nuptial half is kindlingly concerned in the launch of a new couple; it is the business of the fair sex: and man himself (very strangely, but nature quickens ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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