declare

Other forms of declare

past tense

declared·

present participle

declaring·

third person

declares·

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 declare

What does declare mean?

declare means "state emphatically and authoritatively". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in declare?

declare has 2 syllables: de-clare. The stress falls on "clare". In IPA it is /dɪˈklɛɹ/.

What is another word for declare?

Close synonyms include announce, adjudge, hold. 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 declare a common word?

declare 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 declare?

1 word rhymes with declare. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.