Verb
declare (third-person singular simple present declares, present participle declaring, simple past and past participle declared)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.
1664, Robert Boyle, chapter III, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Herringman […], published 1670, →OCLC, part I, page 26: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.
- (transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
- Synonyms: disclose, make known; see also Thesaurus:announce
He declared him innocent.
- declare bankruptcy
- declare victory
- declare war
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- One South Korean opposition party called on Moon to declare the current air pollution problem a national disaster.
- declare an innings closed
- (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
- Synonyms: disclose, make known, divulge
1984 April 2, Richard Woodbury, Anastasia Toufexis, “Law: The Trouble with Harry”, in Time:The prosecution has introduced evidence, including canceled checks, to show that the judge failed to declare part of his income.
- (card games) To show one's cards in order to score.
- (intransitive, 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.
- (transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.
The counter "i" was declared as an integer.
- (grand strategy games, slang) to declare war [with on]
- France declared on me, I'm finished!
- (Christianity, particularly Evangelicalism) 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.
He prayed to God "please heal my sister", while she declared "I am healed in Jesus' name".
Conjugation
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Translations
to make a declaration
- Belarusian: дэкларава́ць impf or pf (deklaravácʹ)
- Bulgarian: декларирам (bg) (deklariram)
- Catalan: declarar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 宣布 (syun1 bou3)
- Hakka: 宣布 (siên-pu)
- Hokkien: 宣布 (soan-pò͘)
- Mandarin: 宣布 (zh) (xuānbù)
- Czech: deklarovat (cs)
- Danish: proklamere, erklære
- Dutch: verklaren (nl)
- Esperanto: deklari (eo)
- Estonian: kuulutama (et)
- Finnish: julistaa (fi), ilmoittaa (fi), tullata (fi) (in customs)
- French: déclarer (fr)
- Galician: declarar (gl)
- German: bekanntmachen, bekanntgeben (de), deklarieren (de)
- Gothic: 𐌼𐌴𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (mērjan)
- Greek: ανακοινώνω (el) (anakoinóno)
- Hungarian: kijelent (hu)
- Ido: deklarar (io)
- Italian: dichiarare (it)
- Latin: dēclārō, ēloquor (la)
- Lingala: sakola
- Maori: whakapuaki
- Norman: dêcliather (Jersey)
- Old English: ānemnan
- Polish: deklarować (pl) impf, zadeklarować (pl) pf
- Portuguese: declarar (pt)
- Romanian: declara (ro)
- Russian: деклари́ровать (ru) (deklarírovatʹ), объявля́ть (ru) (obʺjavljátʹ)
- Sanskrit: शंसति (sa) (śaṃsati)
- Spanish: declarar (es)
- Swedish: deklarera (sv)
- Thai: เปิดเผย (th) (bpə̀ət-pə̌əi)
- Turkish: beyan etmek (tr), deklare etmek (tr), ilan etmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: декларува́ти (deklaruváty), оголо́шувати (uk) (oholóšuvaty)
- Zazaki: êlan kerden
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to announce one's support, choice, opinion, etc
cricket: for the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete
to affirm or state something emphatically
to make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.
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