Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of making known publicly.
  • noun Something announced.
  • noun A broadcast message, especially a program note or commercial.
  • noun An engraved or printed formal statement or notice, as of a wedding or a relocation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of announcing or giving notice; that which is announced or made known; proclamation; publication; notification.
  • noun In card-playing, a bid; a meld.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An act of announcing, or giving notice.
  • noun That which conveys what is announced.
  • noun The content which is announced.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen
  • noun a formal public statement

Etymologies

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announce +‎ -ment

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