Usually means: State or announce something formally.
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  1. declare: Merriam-Webster.com
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  3. declare: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. declare: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. declare: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  11. declare: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. declare: Dictionary.com
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  17. declare: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  19. declare: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
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  24. declare: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. declare: Legal dictionary
  5. Declare: Financial dictionary

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  1. declare: Encyclopedia

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  1. declare: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Declare: Dan's Poker

(Note: See declarable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
verb:  (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
verb:  (card games) To show one's cards in order to score.
verb:  (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result
verb:  (transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.
verb:  (grand strategy games, slang) to declare war [with on]
verb:  (Christianity, particularly Evangelicalism) To state that a thing shall happen or affirm a condition in the hopes of seeing it happen spiritually, in contrast to prayer which takes the form of a request.

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