declaration

CEFRC1

/ˌdɛk.ləˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An official or public statement about something.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.

Examples

  • I tried to keep track of his declaration.

  • Please fill out the Customs Declaration Form.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • /ˌdek.ləˈɹæɪ.ʃən/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Specifically, a declaration of love.

  2. An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.

  3. The act or process of declaring.

More examples

In context

  • A customs declaration is required.

  • I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.

  • 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 […].

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English declaration, declaracion, declaracioun, from Old French declaration (French déclaration), from Latin dēclārātiōnem, accusative of Latin dēclārātiō.