DECLARED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does declared mean? 

• DECLARED (adjective)
  The adjective DECLARED has 2 senses:

1. made known or openly avowed

2. declared as fact; explicitly stated

  Familiarity information: DECLARED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECLARED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made known or openly avowed

Context example:

a declared liberal

Similar:

alleged (declared but not proved)

announced; proclaimed (declared publicly; made widely known)

asserted (confidently declared to be so)

avowed; professed (openly declared as such)

professed (claimed with intent to deceive)

self-proclaimed (proclaimed to be or described as such by oneself, without endorsement by others)

Antonym:

undeclared (not announced or openly acknowledged)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Declared as fact; explicitly stated

Synonyms:

declared; stated

Similar:

explicit; expressed (precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication)

 Context examples 

"Nor I my heart," declared the Tin Woodman.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Her duplicity hurts me more than all; till the very last, if I reasoned with her, she declared herself as much attached to me as ever, and laughed at my fears.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Charles agreed, but declared his resolution of not going away.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Miss Mary declared she felt, for her part, she never dared venture.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In vain he declared his innocence; he was dismissed with no better answer.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The housekeeper declared she knew nothing of my being expected.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

They both declared they should prefer it to anything.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I declared that nobody else should touch it; and this gave Peggotty such delight that she went away in good spirits.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And she clapped her hands and declared that she was hugely pleased.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As to Mrs. St. Clair’s assertion that she had actually seen her husband at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or dreaming.

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