Declaration Meaning
/ˌdɛk.ləˈɹeɪ.ʃən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAn emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.
nounSpecifically, a declaration of love.
Sentence Examples
A customs declaration is required.
Please fill out the Customs Declaration Form.
I tried to keep track of his declaration.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The king made a solemn ____ of war against the neighboring kingdom.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
A customs ____ is required.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English declaration, declaracion, declaracioun, from Old French declaration (French déclaration), from Latin dēclārātiōnem, accusative of Latin dēclārātiō.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 […]."
— 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility:
"I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration."
— 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield:
"He blushed a great deal when the others chaffed him for his obvious preference. He made the first declaration in his life to Fräulein Hedwig, but unfortunately it was an accident […]."
— 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 23, in Of Human Bondage:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The king made a solemn ____ of war against the neighboring kingdom.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
A customs ____ is required.