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Announce vs Publicise - What's the difference?

announce | publicise |

In transitive terms the difference between announce and publicise

is that announce is to pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence while publicise is to advertise, create publicity for.

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

    *

    publicise

    English

    Alternative forms

    *publicize

    Verb

    (publicis) (British)
  • To make widely known to the public.
  • The scandal was so publicised that he lost the next election.
  • To advertise, create publicity for.
  • They're already publicising next month's concert.