declare
verbUK /dɪˈklɛə/ · US /dɪˈklɛɚ/
Etymology From Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, from Latin dēclārō (“to make clear”), from dē- + clārus (“clear”).
9 senses
- 1To make clear, explain, interpret.
- 2To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly…
- 3To inform government customs or taxation officials of…
- 4To show one's cards in order to score.
- 5For a constituency in an election to officially announce…
- 6The decision of the captain to let the bowling side bat…
- 7To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable…
- 8To declare war.
- 9To state that a thing shall happen or affirm a condition…
Obsolete To make clear, explain, interpret.
- Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare unto us thys parable.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
- To declare this a little, vve muſt aſſume, that the Surfaces of all ſuch Bodies, […] are exactly ſmooth only in a popular, or at moſt in a Phyſical ſenſe, but not in a ſtrict and rigid ſenſe.1664, Robert Boyle, chapter III, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. […], London: […] Henry Herringman […], →OCLC, part I, page 26:
To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
- He declared him innocent.
- declare bankruptcy
4 more examples
- declare victory
- declare war
- declare independence
- declare an innings closed
To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
- The prosecution has introduced evidence, including canceled checks, to show that the judge failed to declare part of his income.1984 April 2, Richard Woodbury, Anastasia Toufexis, “Law: The Trouble with Harry”, in Time:
Card games, Games To show one's cards in order to score.
Government, Politics For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result
- Houghton and Sunderland South was the first constituency to declare in the 2015 general election.
Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports The decision of the captain to let the bowling side bat in test cricket to save time without being all out.
- He declared at 689-7.
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.
- The counter "i" was declared as an integer.
Christianity To state that a thing shall happen or affirm a condition in the hopes of seeing it happen spiritually, in contrast to prayer which takes the form of a request.
Particularly Evangelicalism
- He prayed to God "please heal my sister", while she declared "I am healed in Jesus' name".
- Synonyms
- assert, asseverate, attest, aver, avouch, avow, certify, claim, confirm, construct, declare, define, depone, dictate, disclose, inform, initialize, judge, make known, proclaim, state, swear
- Antonyms
- deinitialize, dissolve
- Derived terms
- aforedeclared, declarable, declarant, declaration, declarative, declaratory, declare against, declarement, declarer, declare war, foredeclare, forward-declare, I declare, I do declare, misdeclare, nondeclaring, predeclare, redeclare, self-declare, undeclare
- Hypernyms
- announce, communicate