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DECLARATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
Synonyms:
declaration; resolution; resolve
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
Sense 2
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 3
Meaning:
A formal public statement
Example:
a declaration of independence
Synonyms:
announcement; annunciation; declaration; proclamation
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"):
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 4
Meaning:
(law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction
Example:
his declaration of innocence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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 5
Meaning:
(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
Synonyms:
contract; declaration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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 6
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)
Context examples:
Though the declaration of my love urged and trembled on my tongue a thousand times, I knew that it was no time for such a declaration.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But as she wanted to be drawing, the declaration must wait a little longer.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Elinor started at this declaration, and was sorry for the warmth she had been betrayed into, in speaking of him.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
This open bold declaration of mine was so opposite to the schemes and politics of his imperial majesty, that he could never forgive me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She said "It is the only version of the declaration that does that, with the exception of an engraving from 1836 that derives from it. This is really a symbolic way of saying we are all one people..."
(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)
A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Is there a Henry in the world who could be insensible to such a declaration?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I provided, and sent down by the Norwood coach the night before, a delicate little hamper, amounting in itself, I thought, almost to a declaration.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The whole subject of it was love—a marriage of love was to be described by the gentleman, and very little short of a declaration of love be made by the lady.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Harriet submitted, though her mind could hardly separate the parts, so as to feel quite sure that her friend were not writing down a declaration of love.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
