announce

announce

verb

Definition of ANNOUNCE

to make known openly or publicly <the excited coworker announced to everyone within hearing distance that she and her husband were expecting>

Synonyms advertise, annunciate, blare, blaze, blazon, broadcast, declare, enunciate, flash, give out, herald, placard, post, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, release, sound, trumpet

Related Words bark, call (off or out), cry; bill, billboard, bulletin, gazette [chiefly British]; knell, ring, toll; blurb, feature, pitch, plug, promote, puff; disseminate, spread; disclose, divulge, introduce, kithe [chiefly Scottish], manifest, report, reveal, show; advise, apprise, hand down, inform, notify; communicate, impart, intimate

Phrases beat the drum (for or about), run with

Near Antonyms conceal, hush (up), silence, suppress, withhold; recall, recant, retract, revoke