announcer

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /əˈnaʊnsɚ/ UK /əˈnaʊnsə/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a person who introduces programs or reads news on radio or television

The announcer's calm voice guided listeners through the storm warnings.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who introduces... broadcaster presenter narrator commentatornewsreaderhost anchor

Word family

Related forms announce announcement

Etymology

From announce + -er. Announce derives from Old French anoncier, from Latin annuntiare ('to make known'), from ad- ('to') + nuntiare ('to report'), from nuntius ('messenger').

annuntiare Latin nuntius Latin

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People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives

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# announcer

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /əˈnaʊnsɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /əˈnaʊnsə/

## Meanings
1. a person who introduces programs or reads news on radio or television

## Examples
- The announcer's calm voice guided listeners through the storm warnings.

## Synonyms
- broadcaster
- presenter
- narrator
- commentator
- newsreader
- host
- anchor

## Related Forms
- announce
- announcement

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: annuntiare
- Root: nuntius

## Etymology
From announce + -er. Announce derives from Old French anoncier, from Latin annuntiare ('to make known'), from ad- ('to') + nuntiare ('to report'), from nuntius ('messenger').

## AI Etymology
announcer comes from announce + -er. Announce derives from Old French anoncier, from Latin annuntiare ('to make known'), from ad- ('to') + nuntiare ('to report'), from nuntius ('messenger'). Morphologically, the word is transparent: -er is attached to the older base named in the history, so the modern form packages an inherited or borrowed stem inside a later English derivative. In modern use, the noun sense is "a person who introduces programs or reads news on radio or television", which keeps the etymology connected to the word's present dictionary value rather than treating it as a merely historical label. The wider word family includes related English forms such as announce, announcement, showing how the same base continues to support neighboring English vocabulary. The principal historical forms in the chain include Latin annuntiare, Latin nuntius, which anchor the explanation in named linguistic material.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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