Announce vs Publicise - What's the difference?
announce | publicise |
(label) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
* (convert into real quote) (1724-1804)
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, title= (label) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
* (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
To make widely known to the public.
To advertise, create publicity for.
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
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Verb
(announc)- Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
F. E. Penny
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.}}
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.}}
- Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.
Synonyms
* proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgateDerived terms
*References
* English reporting verbspublicise
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Alternative forms
*publicizeVerb
(publicis) (British)- The scandal was so publicised that he lost the next election.
- They're already publicising next month's concert.
