Meanings
verbnotify (third-person singular simple present notifies, present participle notifying, simple past and past participle notified)
present singular third person notifies · participle present notifying · participle past notified · past notified
- transitiveTo give (someone) notice (of some event).First known use mid-15th c.
Once a decision has been reached and notified to the parties it becomes binding.
1 more example
The dispatcher immediately notified the volunteer fire department of the emergency call.
- obsoletetransitiveTo make (something) known.First known use late 14c.
- obsoletetransitiveTo make note of (something).
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Frenchnotifier
- Middle Englishnotifien
- Englishnotify
From Middle English notifien, a borrowing from Old French notifier, notefiier.
More words from Middle English, Old French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic أَخْبَرَ, أَبْلَغَ
- أَخْبَرَ (ʔaḵbara)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- أَبْلَغَ (ʔablaḡa)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Bulgarian уведомя́вам, уведомя́
- уведомя́вам (uvedomjávam)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- уведомя́ (uvedomjá)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Chinese Mandarin 通知, 通告
- 通知 (tōngzhī)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- 通告 (tōnggào)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Czech upozornit, avizovat
- upozornit(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- avizovat(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Dutch mededelen, waarschuwen
- mededelen(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- waarschuwen(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- notificeren(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Esperanto avizi
- avizi(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Finnish ilmoittaa
- ilmoittaa(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
French notifier
- notifier(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
German mitteilen, benachrichtigen
- mitteilen(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- benachrichtigen(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Hungarian értesít
- értesít(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Icelandic láta vita, tilkynna
- láta vita(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- tilkynna(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Indonesian memberitahu
- memberitahu(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Irish cuir in iúl
- cuir in iúl(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Italian notificare
- notificare(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Japanese 通告する, 通知する
- 通告する (tsūkoku suru)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- 通知する (tsūchi suru)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- 知らせる (shiraseru)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Korean 통치하다, 통보하다
- 통치하다 (tongchihada)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- 통보하다 (tongbohada)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- 알리다 (allida)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Māori whakamōhio
- whakamōhio(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Norwegian meddele
- meddele(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Polish notyfikować, awizować
- notyfikować(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- awizować(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- zaawizować(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Portuguese notificar, informar
- notificar(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- informar(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Russian уведомля́ть, уве́домить
- уведомля́ть (uvedomljátʹ)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- уве́домить (uvédomitʹ)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- сообща́ть (soobščátʹ)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- сообщи́ть (soobščítʹ)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- оповеща́ть (opoveščátʹ)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- оповести́ть (opovestítʹ)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Slovak upovedomiť, oznámiť
- upovedomiť(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- oznámiť(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Spanish notificar
- notificar(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Swedish meddela, avisera
- meddela(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- avisera(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Tagalog ipaalam, ipasabi
- ipaalam(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- ipasabi(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- ipabatid(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- ipabalita(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- ipagbigay-alam(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- ipahayag(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- ipatalastas(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Thai แจ้งความ
- แจ้งความ (jɛ̂ɛng-kwaam)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Turkish bildirmek
- bildirmek(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Ukrainian повідомля́ти, повідо́мити
- повідомля́ти (povidomljáty)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- повідо́мити (povidómyty)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- оповіща́ти (opoviščáty)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
- оповісти́ти (opovistýty)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
Yiddish אַוויזירן
- אַוויזירן (avizirn)(transitive) to give (someone) notice of (something)
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APA
notify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/notify
MLA
“notify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/notify. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “notify,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/notify.
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