pronouncement
Americannoun
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an official or authoritative statement or announcement
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the act of pronouncing, declaring, or uttering formally
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Etymology
Origin of pronouncement
Explanation
A pronouncement is an official announcement, like the kind politicians make. It’s formal and comes from someone in charge. The mayor of your town might make a pronouncement about the importance of not littering. When you make a pronouncement, you're certain about what you're saying and say it with authority. A school principal's pronouncement about not running in the halls might be broadcast over the intercom so everyone can hear it. A big brother might make a pronouncement about what’s for dinner. Feel free to ignore him, but not the principal or the mayor, unless you want to get in trouble. Pronouncement comes from the Latin word pronuntiare, "to proclaim or announce."
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Example Sentences
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Where was the immediate pronouncement that they will not sit quietly while their journalists are demeaned in front of their colleagues?
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
Florko, a staff writer at the Atlantic, made that pronouncement long before the multistate outbreak of Cyclospora cayetanensis, a parasite that is associated with explosive diarrhea and has spread across 34 states and counting.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Rights groups say that it should be read more as a public pronouncement than a document to bring offenders before the courts.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
Vice President Kamala Harris made the same pronouncement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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