Announce vs Said - What's the difference?
announce | said |
(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)
(say)
mentioned earlier
As a verb announce
is (label) to give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.As a proper noun said is
: (l).announce
English
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 verbssaid
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- The said party has denied the charges.