declare
state emphatically and authoritatively
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,744 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,044 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- state emphatically and authoritatively He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with
- announce publicly or officially also: announce The President declared war
- state firmly He declared that he was innocent
- declare to be also: adjudge, hold She was declared incompetentjudge held that the defendant was innocent
- authorize payments of declare dividends
- designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand
declare in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I declare for it, I had forgotten it.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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Throw off disguise of somebody else's overcoat, and declare myself.
Punch — Volume 100, January 31, 1891 · Various · Chapter 1
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I do declare Captain Arbald is below, and I am sadly deranged.
Representative Plays by American Dramatists — Love in '76 · Oliver Bell Bunce · Chapter 1
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You are lascivious because yonder page has a staff which I elect to declare is not a staff.
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice · James Branch Cabell · Chapter 1
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Rustics declare them to be silver, and account for their crumbling on the theory that the metal is under a curse.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 02 · Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner · Chapter 1