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say it: uh-NOWN-smuhnt
announcement is a noun meaning "a formal public statement". It is pronounced /əˈnaʊnsmənt/ — uh-NOWN-smuhnt. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a formal public statement
“the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war”
“a declaration of independence”
a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen
“the announcement appeared in the local newspaper”
“the promulgation was written in English”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for announcement come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.