declaration
pronunciation
How to pronounce declaration in British English:
UK [ˌdekləˈreɪʃn]
How to pronounce declaration in American English:
US [ˌdekləˈreɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)
- (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction
- a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties
- (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
- a formal public statement
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
Word Origin
- declaration (n.)
- mid-14c., "action of stating," from Old French declaration, from Latin declarationem (nominative declaratio), noun of action from past participle stem of declarare (see declare). Meaning "proclamation, public statement" is from 1650s. Declaration of independence is recorded from 1776 (the one by the British American colonies seems to be the first so called; though the phrase is not in the document itself, it was titled that from the first in the press).
Example
- 1. The declaration may yet be whittled away to nothing .
- 2. Yet mr. broun 's declaration was met with applause .
- 3. Sex was sex , not a declaration of sexuality .
- 4. A variable declaration , unless you assign a value to the variable .
- 5. The last flu pandemic declaration was in 1968 .