declaration

See also: déclaration

English

Etymology

From Middle English declaration, declaracion, declaracioun, from Old French declaration (French déclaration), from Latin dēclārātiōnem, accusative of Latin dēclārātiō.

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  • IPA(key): /ˌdɛkləˈɹeɪʃən/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

declaration (countable and uncountable, plural declarations)

  1. An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.
    • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility:
      The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair […] .
  2. (now rare) Specifically, a declaration of love.
    • 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield:
      I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.
    • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 23, in Of Human Bondage:
      He blushed a great deal when the others chaffed him for his obvious preference. He made the first declaration in his life to Fräulein Hedwig, but unfortunately it was an accident […] .
  3. A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
  4. The act or process of declaring.
  5. (cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
  6. (law) In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff's cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.
  7. (computing) The specification of an object, such as a variable or function, establishing its existence but not necessarily describing its contents.

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Noun

declaration f (plural declarations)

  1. declaration
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