Declaration

Quick meaning: Declaration is a noun meaning An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.

Meaning

An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.

More Meanings

1. (now rare) Specifically, a declaration of love.
2. A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
3. The act or process of declaring.
4. (cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
5. (law) 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.
6. (programming) The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents.

Example Sentences

I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.

The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair […].

He blushed a great deal when the others chaffed him for his obvious preference. He made the first declaration in his life to Fräulein Hedwig, but unfortunately it was an accident […].

Word Forms

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Synonyms for declaration

Depending on context, synonyms include notice, statement, avowal, resolve, resolution.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include resolve, resolution, evidence, affirmation, declared, attestation.

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