annunciator
noun
annunciator is a noun meaning “Anything that announces something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-N-U-N-C-I-A-T-O-R, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of annunciator is annunciators.
What does annunciator mean?
noun
- 1
Anything that announces something.
- 2
An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.
- 3
A signalling device that shows which of several electrical circuits is active, especially such a device in a telephone switchboard.
- 4
UKA buzzer in a signal box that sounds when a train activates a treadle positioned on the track, and thus provides a warning or announcement of a nearby train.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of annunciator
- annunciators plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is annunciator?
Annunciator appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does annunciator come from?
From Latin [Term?].
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).