Announced vs Pronounced - What's the difference?
announced | pronounced |
(announce)
(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)
As verbs the difference between announced and pronounced
is that announced is past tense of announce while pronounced is past tense of pronounce.As an adjective pronounced is
uttered, articulated.announced
English
Verb
(head)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.