promulgate

1. 1.

   state or announce

   “`I am not a Communist,' he exclaimed”

   “The King will proclaim an amnesty”

   Synonymsproclaimexclaim

   Broaderdeclare

   Narrowerdeclaretrumpetclarion
2. 2.

   put a law into effect by formal declaration

   Broaderannounce

Other forms of promulgate

past tense

promulgated·

present participle

promulgating·

third person

promulgates·

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 promulgate

What does promulgate mean?

promulgate means "state or announce". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in promulgate?

promulgate has 3 syllables: pro-mul-gate. The stress falls on "mul". In IPA it is /pɹoʊˈmʌlɡeɪt/.

What is another word for promulgate?

Close synonyms include proclaim, exclaim. 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 promulgate a common word?

promulgate 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.