declaration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction

   Our declaration of innocence shocked them.

2. 2
   noun

   An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.

   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 […].

3. 3
   noun

   Specifically, a declaration of love.

   I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.

4. 4
   noun

   a formal expression by a meeting

5. 5
   noun

   a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)

6. 6
   noun

   a formal public statement

7. 7
   noun

   (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

8. 8
   noun

   a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties

Etymology

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