Dictionary Definition
declaration
Noun
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; "his declaration of
innocence"
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
[syn: contract]
5 a formal public statement; "the government made
an announcement about changes in the drug war"; "a declaration of
independence" [syn: announcement, proclamation, annunciation]
6 a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by
a vote [syn: resolution, resolve]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
declaracion, from déclaration, from declarationemPronunciation
- /ˌdɛklæˈreɪʃən/, /dEkl
Extensive Definition
Declaration may refer
to:
- The United States Declaration of Independence
- Declaration and forfeiture, when the captain of a cricket team declares their innings closed
- A type of sentence (linguistics) and a type of speech act (linguistics)
- Declaration
(law), a type of relief that may be ordered by a court or
tribunal
- Declaration of trust, the act of settling property on trust
- Open Declaration, the act of notification in a public forum by formal documentation
- Declaration (computer science), the specification of a variable's type in computer science
- Declarative programming, a computer programming methodology
- Declaration (poker), a formal expression of intent to take some action in the card game poker
- Declaration of independence, a proclamation of the independence of an aspiring state
- Declaration of war, a formal declaration indicating that a state of war exists between nations
- Declarative memory, an aspect of human memory
- Declaration (album), an album released by Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman in 2001.
- Declaration (FFTL album), the upcoming studio album by From First to Last
- Declaration (Bleeding Through album), the upcoming 2008 album by Bleeding Through
- The 12th song of Trivium's 2005 album, Ascendancy.
- The Declaration, a 2008 studio album by Ashanti.
- Declarative
declaration in German:
Deklaration
declaration in French:
Déclaration
declaration in Russian:
Декларация
declaration in Simple
English: Declaration
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Parthian shot, acceptance, acknowledgment, address, admission, advertisement, affidavit, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, allowance, announcement, annunciation, answer, apostrophe, appointment, appreciation, assertion, asseveration, attest, attestation, averment, avouchment, avowal, bill, bill of complaint, brevet, broadcast, bull, bulletin board, circular, claim, comment, communication, communique, complaint, compurgation, concession, conclusion, confession, confession of
faith, crack, creed, declaration of faith,
decree, decree-law,
decreement, decretal, decretum, deposition, dictum, diktat, disclosure, edict, edictum, encyclical, enunciation, exclamation, expression, fiat, greeting, information, instrument in
proof, interjection, ipse dixit,
law, legal evidence,
libel, manifesto, mention, narratio, nolle prosequi,
nonsuit, note, notice, notification, observation, ordinance, ordonnance, phrase, position, position paper,
positive declaration, predicate, predication, proclamation, profession, program, programma, promulgation, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proposition, protest, protestation, public
notice, publication,
question, recognition, reflection, remark, report, rescript, revelation, rule, ruling, say, say-so, saying, senatus consult, senatus
consultum, sentence,
stance, stand, statement, statement of facts,
subjoinder, sworn
evidence, sworn statement, sworn testimony, testimonial, testimonium, testimony, thought, ukase, utterance, vouch, white book, white paper,
witness, word