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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
annunciation is a noun meaning "a festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
(Christianity) the announcement to the Virgin Mary by the angel Gabriel of the incarnation of Christ
Christianity
a formal public statement
“the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war”
“a declaration of independence”
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 annunciation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.