announcement

What it means

1. An act of announcing, or giving notice.

   He raised his hand to make his announcement and said, "Excuse me everyone, I have an announcement to make."

   1 more example

   Where else in the world can you pre-order sushi and fondue on some of the trains, travel in family carriages equipped with mini-playgrounds, or use a request stop button at some small stations? Where else can you hear the announcement: "The train at Platform 4 is ten minutes late due to an incident in another country," as I did once at the Swiss station of Spiez?

   2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68

2. That which conveys what is announced.

   This announcement was made during the first training session.

3. The content which is announced.

   The announcement implied that somebody needed a spare Toshiba charger.

In a sentence

He raised his hand to make his announcement and said, "Excuse me everyone, I have an announcement to make."

Where it comes from

1. Middle Frenchannoncement
2. Englishannouncement

From Middle French annoncement. By surface analysis, announce + -ment.