Announcement
Meaning of Announcement
A public statement giving information or news.
ما معنى كلمة Announcement بالعربي؟
إعلان رسمي
📢🌐 إعلان رسمي أو بيان علني يُوجَّه لجمهور واسع؛ خبر مُعلَن؛ وثيقة تصريح تُحوّل المعلومة إلى حدث رسمي 📢✨
قصة GL: كان إعلان نتيجة HBDNF 88.77% لحظة تاريخية لـ نايف طلال العيسى — إعلان جاء بعد 43 يوماً من التوثيق الدقيق و5 سنوات من المنهجية ليُثبت للعالم قدرة التعلم الجيني 🌟🧠
Synonyms & related words
Announcement in a sentence
The announcement of the results followed peer review.
The announcement boosted interest in the course.
The announcement was filed with the authority.
The teacher made an announcement about the quiz.
Origin of Announcement
From announce + -ment.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, announcement is a formal communication word. Announcements must be accurate and sourced.
Announcement audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "announcement" — a noun, pronounced /əˈnaʊnsmənt/, with the stress on "nounce".
Narrator: An announcement is a public or formal statement — the news itself, packaged for everyone at once.
Narrator: In plain English, an announcement is the message after the throat-clearing — attention gathered, news delivered.
Narrator: It builds announce — Latin "nuntius", messenger — with -ment, the noun-maker: the message, made a thing.
Narrator: Its verbs are ceremonial — you make an announcement, issue one formally, and important ones are "big".
Narrator: Its habitats are loudspeakers and letterheads — station announcements, engagement announcements, official announcements.
Narrator: The tease is modern — "we have an announcement" now precedes the news, building suspense before delivery.
Narrator: Newspapers kept a formal corner — births, marriages, and deaths: the announcements column, life's milestones in small print.
Narrator: So remember: an announcement is news in its Sunday best — the message dressed, staged, and delivered to all.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: Group-chat phenomenon — my cousin posted "ANNOUNCEMENT COMING FRIDAY" and the family has speculated for four days. Nothing yet. When did announcements get trailers?
Speaker B: The modern tease! An ANNOUNCEMENT — the formal public statement, from Latin "nuntius", messenger, plus -ment — traditionally WAS the news. Now the announcement OF an announcement builds suspense first: your cousin is running a marketing campaign on the family!
Speaker A: So the word covers both the news and its staging?
Speaker B: The whole ceremony! The announcement is the message in its Sunday best — attention gathered, then delivered. You MAKE an announcement in person, ISSUE one on letterhead, and POST one to the noticeboard; each verb sets the formality.
Speaker A: Example sentences from the ceremony?
Speaker B: "The station announcement apologised for the delay, musically garbled"; "their engagement announcement filled the village with joy and cake"; "the company's announcement wiped out the share price by lunchtime" — platforms, parishes, and portfolios.
Speaker A: Common mistakes with the word?
Speaker B: The weight test, first — an announcement implies formality and audience: "an announcement that I'm making tea" is domestic comedy; small news is just news. Then spelling — announce keeps its full self before -ment: announce-ment, with the E: "announcment" haunts office emails daily.
Speaker A: Keep the E — the spelling survives whole! Where do announcements live formally?
Speaker B: Grand addresses! The newspaper's BMD column — births, marriages, deaths: life's milestones in small print, still running after two centuries; PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS from councils and courts; and the tannoy's SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS — travel's soundtrack of apology.
Speaker A: The column of lifetimes — small print, big moments! And the suspense industry?
Speaker B: Fully industrialised! Companies schedule announcement events, trailers get their own trailers, and "big announcement" is a genre. The risk is inflation — tease grandly, deliver a logo tweak, and the audience learns distrust. The old rule holds: the announcement should outweigh its drumroll!
Speaker A: Outweigh the drumroll — carve it above every marketing desk! Close relatives?
Speaker B: "Statement" is the announcement in a suit — often defensive; "declaration" adds legal or passionate weight; "notice" is the humble printed cousin — pinned, not proclaimed; "bulletin" is the update in series; "proclamation" brings the trumpets and scrolls. "Announcement" keeps the dressed message — news, staged and served!
Speaker A: Friday's announcement, for the record: a new puppy. The drumroll was, for once, deserved.
Speaker B: The rare announcement that outweighs its trailer — four paws of vindication!
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "announcement" in AI prompts — a message-object word: it designs the news components apps deliver and manage.
Speaker A: So announcement in a prompt is the deliverable itself?
Speaker B: Exactly. For platforms, you'd write:
Prompt: Build an announcement system for my school app — admins compose once with title, body, and audience selection by class or year, delivered as push, email, and in-app banner, with delivery and read counts per announcement. One composition, every channel, receipts included.
Speaker B: The announcement as an object — composed once, delivered everywhere, measured after.
Speaker A: Receipts included — the head teacher's dream! Priority?
Speaker B: The tiers prompt:
Prompt: Add announcement tiers to my platform — routine ones sit in the feed, important ones banner for a day, and critical ones interrupt once with acknowledgment required, each tier visually distinct and admins limited to two criticals monthly. The drumroll rationed by design.
Speaker A: Criticals rationed to two — inflation prevented structurally! Scheduling?
Speaker B: The timing prompt:
Prompt: Schedule announcements intelligently in my app — compose now, deliver at each user's local morning, never on their weekend, with an embargo option that reveals everywhere at one exact moment. The news lands when ears are open.
Speaker A: Lands when ears are open — timing as kindness! Archives?
Speaker B: The archive prompt:
Prompt: Create an announcements archive for my product — every past announcement searchable and dated, grouped by category, with an RSS feed and email subscription, so no user ever asks "when did that change?" twice. The drumrolls, filed forever.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: The milestone prompt:
Prompt: Generate milestone announcements in my community app — new member joins, project completions, and work anniversaries drafted automatically for the feed, editable before posting and off by default per user for privacy. The happy news written, the subject consulted.
Speaker A: So "announcement" composes once for all channels, tiers the urgency, times the landing, files the archive, and consults the celebrated.
Speaker B: Exactly — the dressed-message noun: build it as an object with audience, tier, and timing, and every drumroll earns itself.
Frequently asked questions about Announcement
What does Announcement mean?
A public statement giving information or news.
ما معنى كلمة Announcement بالعربي؟
إعلان رسمي — 📢🌐 إعلان رسمي أو بيان علني يُوجَّه لجمهور واسع؛ خبر مُعلَن؛ وثيقة تصريح تُحوّل المعلومة إلى حدث رسمي 📢✨
How do you pronounce Announcement?
Announcement is pronounced /əˈnaʊnsmənt/ and is used as a noun.
How is Announcement used in a sentence?
The announcement of the results followed peer review.
What are synonyms of Announcement?
statement, declaration, notice, bulletin, proclamation, report.