Annunciation

1. n. The festival celebrated (March 25th) by the Church of England, of Rome, etc., in memory of the angel’s announcement, on that day; Lady Day.
2. n. The act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace.
3. n. The announcement of the incarnation, made by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.