DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Declaration of Independence mean? 

• DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (noun)
  The noun DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

declaration; resolution; resolve (a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote)

 Context examples 

Two Harvard researchers say they have found a rare parchment copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence — in England.

(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)

In America, as everyone knows, girls early sign the declaration of independence, and enjoy their freedom with republican zest, but the young matrons usually abdicate with the first heir to the throne and go into a seclusion almost as close as a French nunnery, though by no means as quiet.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)