Announce
Meaning of Announce
To make something known publicly or officially.
ما معنى كلمة Announce بالعربي؟
يُعلن أو يُصرّح
📢🎙️ يُعلن أو يُصرّح بشيء علنياً أمام جمهور؛ يُخبر رسمياً؛ فعل الإعلان الذي يُحوّل الخبر إلى بيان رسمي 📢🌐
قصة GL: استعد نايف طلال العيسى لـيُعلن نتيجة HBDNF 88.77% في مؤتمر Genetic Invent — لم يُعلن إلا بعد توثيق كل قياس عبر 43 يوماً و5 سنوات على منصات GL 🌟🧠
Announce in a sentence
Researchers announce findings only after review.
The firm will announce the launch in May.
The court will announce its ruling on Friday.
The teacher announces the new topic.
Origin of Announce
From Old French anoncier, from Latin annuntiare, from ad- + nuntiare 'to report'.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, announce means to make public with clear facts. Results are announced only when verified.
Announce audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "announce" — a verb, pronounced /əˈnaʊns/, with the stress on "nounce".
Narrator: To announce is to make something known publicly and formally — news, delivered on purpose, to everyone at once.
Narrator: In plain English, announcing is telling with a capital T — the throat cleared, the room hushed.
Narrator: Its root is a messenger's — Latin "annuntiare": "ad-", to, and "nuntius", messenger — to bring the message to.
Narrator: That nuntius family is grand — pronounce, denounce, renounce: one messenger, four directions.
Narrator: Its objects are occasions — announce an engagement, a result, a departure: news with weight earns the verb.
Narrator: It also means to signal arrival — the doorbell announced the guests; spring announced itself in the hedgerows.
Narrator: Register matters — you announce to a room, but merely mention to a friend: the verb implies audience and intent.
Narrator: So remember: to announce is to send the messenger — news made public, deliberately, and all at once.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: Family-dinner protocol dispute — my sister said she'll "announce" her new job at Sunday lunch, and grandma replied "you'll TELL us, dear — the King announces". Who owns the verb?
Speaker B: Both, but grandma has a point about scale! To ANNOUNCE — from Latin "nuntius", messenger — is to make news known formally, publicly, on purpose. It implies audience and occasion; a Sunday-lunch reveal sits right on the border. If she stands up and taps her glass, it's an announcement!
Speaker A: So the difference from telling is the staging?
Speaker B: Precisely — announcing is telling with intent and audience: everyone hears at once, by design. You TELL a friend, MENTION in passing, but ANNOUNCE to the room. The glass-tap is the verb's natural habitat.
Speaker A: Example sentences with proper staging?
Speaker B: "The company announced record profits"; "they announced their engagement at midnight"; "the referee announced four minutes of added time"; "the captain announced a delay, to universal groans" — boardrooms, parties, pitches, and runways.
Speaker A: Common mistakes with the verb?
Speaker B: The person-object trap, first — you announce something TO someone, never "announce someone the news": "she announced the results to the staff". Then the pronounce swap — PRONOUNCE is how you say a word, or a formal declaring: "I now pronounce you..."; learners cross them constantly. Same messenger, different errands!
Speaker A: Announce the news, pronounce the words — errands sorted! And the messenger family?
Speaker B: A grand household! NUNTIUS the messenger fathered ANNOUNCE — bring news to; PRONOUNCE — declare forth; DENOUNCE — declare against; RENOUNCE — declare away. One Latin courier, four directions of declaring. English kept the whole delivery service!
Speaker A: Four directions, one courier — the family mapped! Does anything besides people announce?
Speaker B: Beautifully, yes — the arrival sense! "The doorbell announced the guests"; "thunder announced the storm"; "her perfume announced her before the door opened". Things announce by signalling — the herald sense, poetic and everyday at once.
Speaker A: Perfume as herald — the elegant usage! Close relatives?
Speaker B: "Declare" is announce with legal muscle — declaring war, income, love; "proclaim" adds trumpets — royal and grand; "reveal" uncovers what was hidden — secrets, not schedules; "report" delivers without owning the news; "break" the news rushes it out first. "Announce" keeps the deliberate public telling — the messenger, dispatched!
Speaker A: Sunday's verdict: sister stood, tapped her glass, and formally announced. Grandma applauded the protocol.
Speaker B: Occasion honoured, verb earned — the messenger delivered!
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "announce" in AI prompts — a broadcast word: it builds the moments when apps tell everyone at once, properly.
Speaker A: So announce in a prompt stages the public telling?
Speaker B: Exactly. For releases, you'd write:
Prompt: Announce new features properly in my app — a dismissible what's-new panel on first login after each release, one sentence per feature with a try-it link, never a blocking popup, and a changelog page holding the history. Tell everyone once, interrupt no one twice.
Speaker B: "Announce" implies audience-wide and deliberate — the prompt adds the manners.
Speaker A: Tell once, interrupt never twice — announcement etiquette! Downtime?
Speaker B: The maintenance prompt:
Prompt: Announce scheduled maintenance across my platform — a banner one week ahead, an email two days before, and an in-app countdown on the day, all stating the exact window in the user's timezone and what stays available. No user surprised at the locked door.
Speaker A: Nobody surprised at the locked door — trust preserved! Accessibility?
Speaker B: The screen-reader prompt:
Prompt: Make my app announce dynamic changes to screen readers — form errors, loading completions, and new chat messages announced via live regions, politely for updates and assertively only for errors. The interface that speaks its changes aloud.
Speaker A: The interface that speaks — accessibility's literal announce! Teams?
Speaker B: The announcements-channel prompt:
Prompt: Add an announcements feature to my team app — admins post to a read-only channel, members get one notification with read receipts visible to the poster, and pinned announcements stay atop the feed for their set duration. The glass tapped digitally; the room provably listening.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: The launch prompt:
Prompt: Build my product-launch announcement kit — one email, one social post, and one in-app banner generated from a single feature description, each sized to its channel with consistent wording and one shared link. One message, three heralds, zero drift.
Speaker A: So "announce" panels the what's-new, schedules the warnings, voices the live regions, taps the team glass, and drills the heralds.
Speaker B: Exactly — the messenger verb: tell everyone at once, deliberately, and never make the same announcement twice.
Frequently asked questions about Announce
What does Announce mean?
To make something known publicly or officially.
ما معنى كلمة Announce بالعربي؟
يُعلن أو يُصرّح — 📢🎙️ يُعلن أو يُصرّح بشيء علنياً أمام جمهور؛ يُخبر رسمياً؛ فعل الإعلان الذي يُحوّل الخبر إلى بيان رسمي 📢🌐
How do you pronounce Announce?
Announce is pronounced /əˈnaʊns/ and is used as a verb.
How is Announce used in a sentence?
Researchers announce findings only after review.
What are synonyms of Announce?
declare, proclaim, reveal, publish, broadcast, state.