Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To declare formally; state.
  • transitive verb To pronounce clearly; enunciate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To utter; declare; enunciate; state, as a proposition or an argument.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.
  • transitive verb To utter; to articulate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To say or pronounce; to enunciate.
  • verb To declare or proclaim.
  • verb To state unequivocally.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From French énoncer, from Latin ēnūntiāre, to speak out; see enunciate.]

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