declaration
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (6)declarations
- a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)Type of statementKinds pronouncement, threat, assertion, protestation, manifesto, confession, postulation, bastardization
- (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction“his declaration of innocence”Type of testimony
- a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable propertiesType of statement
- (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must makeSynonyms: contractType of bid, biddingPart of bridge
- a formal public statement“the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war”“a declaration of independence”Synonyms: announcementproclamationannunciationType of statementKinds edict, promulgation
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a voteSynonyms: resolutionresolveType of document, written documentKinds joint resolutionExamples United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence
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Translations
Noun formal statement, announcement
- Spanish
- declaración
- French
- déclaration
- German
- Erklärung
- Italian
- dichiarazione
- Portuguese
- declaração
- Turkish
- beyanname
- Russian
- деклара́ция deklarácija
- Arabic
- إِعْلَان ʔiʕlān
- Chinese
- 声明 shēngmíng
- Japanese
- 宣言 sengen
23 more languages
- Dutch
- declaratie
- Polish
- deklaracja
- Swedish
- deklaration
- Korean
- 선언 seoneon
- Indonesian
- pernyataan
- Hungarian
- nyilatkozat
- Portuguese (PT)
- declaração
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 聲明 shēngmíng
- Albanian
- shpallje
- Catalan
- declaració
- Czech
- prohlášení
- Danish
- erklæring
- Esperanto
- deklaracio
- Estonian
- avaldus
- Finnish
- julistus
- Georgian
- დეკლარაცია deḳlaracia
- Hebrew
- הַצְהָרָה hats'hará
- Icelandic
- yfirlýsing
- Latvian
- paziņojums
- Lithuanian
- deklaracija
- Norwegian
- erklæring
- Romanian
- declarație
- Yiddish
- דעקלאַראַציע deklaratsye
Noun list of items for various legal purposes
- French
- déclaration
- German
- Erklärung
- Portuguese
- declaração
- Russian
- деклара́ция deklarácija
- Arabic
- تصريح taṣrīḥ
- Chinese
- 报单 bàodān
- Polish
- deklaracja
- Swedish
- deklaration
- Hungarian
- nyilatkozat
- Portuguese (PT)
- declaração
7 more languages
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 報單 bàodān
- Catalan
- declaració
- Czech
- deklarace
- Danish
- deklaration
- Norwegian
- deklarasjon
- Romanian
- declarație
- Slovak
- deklarácia
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. déclaration, fr. L. declaratio, fr. declarare. See Declare.
1. The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.
2. That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal.
Declarations of mercy and love... in the Gospel.— John Tilllotson
3. The document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in Washington).
In 1776 the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace.— Henry Thomas Buckle
4. Law That part of the process or pleadings in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See Count, noun, 3.
Declaration of Independence. Amer. Hist. See Declaration of Independence in the vocabulary. See also under Independence. — Declaration of rights. English history See Bill of rights, under Bill. — Declaration of trust Law, a paper subscribed by a grantee of property, acknowledging that he holds it in trust for the purposes and upon the terms set forth. Benjamin Vaughan. Abbott
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54