English Explanatory Dictionary

declaration

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.
  2. Specifically, a declaration of love.
  3. A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
  4. The act or process of declaring.
  5. The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
  6. In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff's cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
  7. The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents.

Pronunciation

/ˌdɛk.ləˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ en-us-declaration.ogg /ˌdek.ləˈɹæɪ.ʃən/ en-au-declaration.ogg

Word forms

declaration declarations

Etymology

From Middle English declaration, declaracion, declaracioun, from Old French declaration (French déclaration), from Latin dēclārātiōnem, accusative of Latin dēclārātiō.

Synonyms

avowal notice statement

Related words

declare complaint customs declaration statutory statutory declaration

Derived words

counterdeclaration declaration bowling declaration of intent declaration of love declaration of war declaration of will dying declaration misdeclaration nondeclaration predeclaration redeclaration tax declaration undeclaration

Translations

Albanian: deklaratë Albanian: shpallje Arabic: إِعْلَان Arabic: بَيَان Armenian: հայտարարություն Assamese: ঘোষণা Asturian: declaración Azerbaijani: bəyannamə Azerbaijani: deklarasiya Belarusian: зая́ва Belarusian: дэклара́цыя Belarusian: аб'яўле́нне Belarusian: аб'яўле́ньне Bengali: ঘোষণা Bulgarian: заявле́ние Bulgarian: деклара́ция Bulgarian: изявле́ние Catalan: declaració Chinese Mandarin: 聲明 /声明 Coptic: ⲟⲩⲱⲛϩ Coptic: ⲟⲙⲟⲗⲟⲅⲓⲁ Czech: prohlášení Czech: vyhlášení Danish: erklæring Dutch: verklaring Dutch: declaratie Esperanto: deklaro Esperanto: deklaracio Estonian: avaldus Estonian: deklaratsioon Finnish: julistus Finnish: tiedoksianto French: déclaration West-Frisian: ferklearring Galician: declaración Georgian: განცხადება Georgian: დეკლარაცია German: Erklärung German: Deklaration Gothic: 𐌹𐌽𐍃𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 Greek: κύρηξη Greek: διακύρηξη Hebrew: הַצְהָרָה Hindi: घोषणा Hindi: बयान Hindi: एलान Hindi: इज़हार Hungarian: nyilatkozat Icelandic: yfirlýsing Ido: deklaro Indonesian: deklarasi Irish: dearbhú Italian: dichiarazione Italian: asserzione Italian: voto Italian: conferma Italian: enunciazione Japanese: 宣言 Kazakh: мәлімдеме Korean: 선언 Kyrgyz: декларация Kyrgyz: айкындама Latin: fatum Latvian: paziņojums Latvian: deklarācija Lithuanian: pareiškimas Lithuanian: deklaracija
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