declaration
//ˌdɛk.ləˈɹeɪ.ʃən//
Forms
- Plural
- declarations
Definitions
1.An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.
- The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair […].
2.The act or process of declaring.
3.The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
4.A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4223
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English declaration, declaracion, declaracioun
From Old French declaration (French déclaration)
From Latin dēclārātiōnem, accusative of Latin dēclārātiō.