Definitions

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

  • transitive verb To announce; proclaim.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bring tidings of; announce.
  • Announced; declared (beforehand).

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

  • past participle obsolete Foretold; preannounced.
  • transitive verb To announce.

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

  • verb to inform that some future event will happen

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

  • verb foreshadow or presage

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin annūntiāre, annūntiāt-; see announce.]

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