Announcer

How to spell announcer

9 letters · 3 syllables

How to pronounce announcer

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does announcer mean?

1. nounA person who reads news, introduces programmes, or describes events on radio or television.

Announcer in a sentence

• The radio announcer read out the morning traffic report.

• A calm announcer kept the live coverage flowing during the delay.

Where does announcer come from?

Language of origin: Latin

This word traces back to the Latin verb annuntiare, meaning 'to report' or 'to bring news', formed from ad 'to, toward' and nuntiare 'to declare or make known', which itself came from nuntius, a 'messenger' or 'message'. English took the verb 'announce' through Old French anoncier in the 1400s, and the agent noun 'announcer', meaning a person who announces, grew up later in English by adding the familiar -er ending. The deeper root nuntius is the same ancestor behind 'pronounce', 'denounce', and even 'nuncio', the title of a papal envoy. The spelling trap lives in the middle: that double 'n' followed by 'ou' (an-noun-cer) is easy to slip on, and the 'c' is sounded as an 's', not a 'k'. Remember the 'nounce' shared with 'pronounce' and the doubled 'n' falls into place.

How the word is built

• an- (variant of ad-: to, toward)
• nounce (from nuntiare: to report, declare)
• -er (agent suffix: one who does)