announce

Other forms of announce

past tense

announced·

present participle

announcing·

third person

announces·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about announce

What does announce mean?

announce means "make known; make an announcement". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in announce?

announce has 2 syllables: an-nounce. The stress falls on "nounce". In IPA it is /əˈnaʊns/.

What is another word for announce?

Close synonyms include denote, declare, annunciate, harbinger, foretell. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is announce a common word?

announce is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with announce?

4 words rhyme with announce. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.