announcement
(əˈnaʊnsmənt)
[a. Fr. annoncement: see announce and -ment.]
The action or process of announcing; public or official notification, intimation, declaration.
Not in J. ‘In our old Dictionaries, announcing is found instead of this word, which is quite of modern use.’—Todd 1818.
| 1798 Belsham Hist. Eng. (L.) He made the announcement, and was received with cheers. 1847 C. Brontë J. Eyre xiv. 133 With this announcement he rose from his chair. 1859 B. Powell Ord. Nat. iii. §2. 331 The sudden announcement of her husband's fate. |