declare oneself

1. 1.

   ask (someone) to marry you

   “he popped the question on Sunday night”

   “she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months”

   “The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman”

   Synonymsproposeofferpop the question

   Broaderrequest

Questions about declare oneself

What does declare oneself mean?

declare oneself means "ask (someone) to marry you".

What is another word for declare oneself?

Close synonyms include propose, offer, pop the question. 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 oneself a common word?

declare oneself 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.