Proclaim Meaning
/pɹəʊˈkleɪm/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo announce or declare.
verbTo make (something) the subject of an official proclamation bringing it within the scope of emergency powers.
Sentence Examples
His manners proclaim him a gentleman.
"Lo! what Apollo from Ortygia's shrine / would sing, unasked he sends us to proclaim."
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The mayor will officially ____ that the new park is now open to all citizens.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The president stood on the steps of the palace to ____ the end of the conflict to the nation.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English proclamen, proclaime, from Old French proclamer, from Latin prōclāmō, prōclāmāre, from prō- (“forth”) + clāmō (“to shout, cry out”). Spelling altered by influence of claim, from the same Latin source (clāmō).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes."
— 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
"You have seen it for yourselves in the play by Aristophanes, where Socrates goes whirling round, proclaiming that he is walking on air, and uttering a great deal of other nonsense about things of which I know nothing whatsoever."
— 1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 21:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The mayor will officially ____ that the new park is now open to all citizens.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The president stood on the steps of the palace to ____ the end of the conflict to the nation.