DECLARATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does declaration mean? 

• DECLARATION (noun)
  The noun DECLARATION has 6 senses:

1. a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)

2. (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction

3. a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties

4. (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

5. a formal public statement

6. a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote

  Familiarity information: DECLARATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECLARATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("declaration" is a kind of...):

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "declaration"):

bastardization (declaring or rendering bastard)

confession (a public declaration of your faith)

manifesto; pronunciamento (a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government))

dictum; pronouncement; say-so (an authoritative declaration)

assertion; asseveration; averment (a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary))

protestation (a strong declaration of protest)

postulation; predication ((logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument)

threat (declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another)

Derivation:

declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

his declaration of innocence

Hypernyms ("declaration" is a kind of...):

testimony (a solemn statement made under oath)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("declaration" is a kind of...):

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

Derivation:

declare (make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

contract; declaration

Hypernyms ("declaration" is a kind of...):

bid; bidding ((bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make)

Domain category:

contract (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)

Holonyms ("declaration" is a part of...):

bridge (any of various card games based on whist for four players)

Derivation:

declare (designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A formal public statement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

announcement; annunciation; declaration; proclamation

Context example:

a declaration of independence

Hypernyms ("declaration" is a kind of...):

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "declaration"):

edict (a formal or authoritative proclamation)

promulgation (the official announcement of a new law or ordinance whereby the law or ordinance is put into effect)

Derivation:

declare (announce publicly or officially)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

declaration; resolution; resolve

Hypernyms ("declaration" is a kind of...):

document; papers; written document (writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "declaration"):

joint resolution (a resolution passed by both houses of Congress which becomes legally binding when signed by the Chief Executive (or passed over the Chief Executive's veto))

Instance hyponyms:

Declaration of Independence (the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the Colonies from Great Britain)

 Context examples 

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Well said, forehead; your declaration shall be respected.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When I think of his past declarations, I give him up.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Collins made his declaration in form.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“I never will, no, I certainly never will wish for a letter again,” was Fanny's secret declaration as she finished this.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I picture myself taking courage to make a declaration to Miss Larkins.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The measures were announced one year after the declaration of national emergency due to the rise in the number of microcephaly cases registered in Brazil.

(Brazil: Babies of mothers infected with Zika will be monitored for up to 3 years, Agência Brasil)

A declaration of a relationship between entities, consisting of a subject, predicate and object.

(Entity Statement, NCI Thesaurus)

The first is the making of Pycroft write a declaration by which he entered the service of this preposterous company.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)