different between announce vs clare

English

Etymology

From Old French anoncier, from Latin ann?nti?re, from ad + n?nti? (“report, relate”), from n?ntius (“messenger, bearer of news”). See nuncio, and compare with annunciate.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ?-nouns', IPA^(key): /??na?ns/
• (UK) enPR: ?-nouns', IPA^(key): /??na?ns/; enPR: ?'nouns, IPA^(key): /?æ.na?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Verb

announce (third-person singular simple present announces, present participle announcing, simple past and past participle announced)

1. (transitive) to give public notice, especially for the first time; to make known
   • c. 1780 William Gilpin, Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain

     Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.

   Synonyms: proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgate

2. (transitive) to pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence
   • c. 1718, Matthew Prior, First Hymn of Callimachus

     Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.

   Synonyms: abjudicate, judge

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:announce

Derived terms

Translations

References

• announce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Etymology 1

cl?rus +? -?

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kla?.re?/, [?k??ä??e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kla.re/, [?kl????]

Adverb

cl?r? (comparative cl?rius, superlative cl?rissim?)

1. clearly, obviously
2. clearly, brightly
3. honorably, in an upstanding way

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kla?.re/, [?k??ä???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kla.re/, [?kl????]

Adjective

cl?re

1. vocative masculine singular of cl?rus

References

• clare in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• clare in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clare in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kla.re]

Adjective

clare f pl or n pl

1. nominative feminine plural of clar
2. accusative feminine plural of clar
3. nominative neuter plural of clar
4. accusative neuter plural of clar