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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.
promulgation is a noun meaning "a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen
“the announcement appeared in the local newspaper”
“the promulgation was written in English”
the official announcement of a new law or ordinance whereby the law or ordinance is put into effect
the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice
“his promulgation of the policy proved to be premature”
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 promulgation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.