proper noun / noun
annunciation
uh-nun-see-AY-shuhn/əˌnʌnsiˈeɪʃən/
A formal announcement of significant news.
The messenger delivers a formal annunciation before the gathered officials.
Etymology
The pieces express the act of bringing news to someone. English first used the noun for the festival commemorating Gabriel's announcement to Mary, then broadened it to announcing more generally.
In context
the priests after conferring in secret with the god in the temple came out with the Annunciation that Alexander was indeed his son and they paid him accordingly almost Divine honors
More examples
- The church commemorates the Annunciation in its calendar.
- The herald's formal annunciation reaches the waiting crowd.
- The novel opens with the annunciation of a royal birth.
Forms
annunciation · annunciations
Similar words
- announcement
- The ordinary term without the formal or religious association.
- proclamation
- Usually a formal public declaration by an authority.