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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that announces, especially an electrical signaling device used in hotels or offices to indicate the sources of calls on a switchboard.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who or that which announces; an announcer. Specifically— An officer of the Greek Church whose duty it was to inform the people of the festivals which were to be celebrated.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Anything that announces something
  2. n. A signalling device that shows which of several electrical circuits is active, especially such a device in a telephone switchboard
  3. n. A buzzer in a UK signal box, that sounds when a train activates a treadle positioned on the track. Provides a warning or announcement of a nearby train.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.
  2. n. An indicator (as in a hotel) which designates the room where attendance is wanted.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an indicator that announces which electrical circuit has been active (as on a telephone switchboard)

Etymologies

  1. Latin (Wiktionary)

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  • chained_bear "When Captain McVay found Lieutenant Orr he was ringing up the engine room on the annunciator and giving the order to stop all engines."
    —Thomas Helm, Ordeal by Sea: The Tragedy of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, 1963 (New York: Signet, 2001), 45 Nov 14, 2008

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