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Announce vs Clare - What's the difference?

announce | clare |

As a verb announce

is to give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

As a proper noun Clare is

a county in the Republic of Ireland.

As a noun Clare is

a nun of the order of Saint Clare.

announce

English

Verb

(announc)
  • (label) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
  • * (convert into real quote) (1724-1804)
    • Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
  • (label) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
  • * (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
    • Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.

    Synonyms

    * proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgate

    Derived terms

    *

    References

    * English reporting verbs

    clare

    English

    (wikipedia Clare)

    Etymology 1

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A county in the Republic of Ireland
  • A town in the county of Cavan, Ireland.
  • derived from place names in England and Ireland, and from (etyl) "clay" as an occupational name for a worker in clay.
  • transferred from the surnames (much less common than the female name).

    • Etymology 2

    Medieval English vernacular form of Clara.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , often spelled Claire in the 20th century.
  • * : Act I, Scene IV:
    • Yes, truly: I speak not as desiring more,
    But rather wishing a more strict restraint
    Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare .
  • * 1999 Margaret York: The Price of Guilt : page 58:
    • "What's your name?"
    "Clare Fairweather," she said. "Awful, isn't it?" and went away, hiding her mirth.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A nun of the order of (Saint Clare).

    • Anagrams

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