declaration
/ˌdɛk.ləˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.10 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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 […]."
- "I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration."
- "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 […]."
Etymology
From Middle English declaration, declaracion, declaracioun, from Old French declaration (French déclaration), from Latin dēclārātiōnem, accusative of Latin dēclārātiō.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: declaration, dēclārātiōnem, dēclārātiō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌdɛk.ləˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
- British English: /ˌdɛk.ləˈɹeɪ.ʃən/