annunciate

Questions about annunciate

What does annunciate mean?

annunciate means "foreshadow or presage".

How many syllables are in annunciate?

annunciate has 4 syllables and divides as an-nun-ci-ate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for annunciate?

Close synonyms include announce, harbinger, foretell, herald. 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 annunciate a common word?

annunciate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.