Announced day English nun died (8)
I believe the answer is:
declared
'announced' is the definition.
('declare' can be a synonym of 'announce')
'day english nun died' is the wordplay.
'day' becomes 'd' (abbreviation for day).
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'nun' becomes 'clare' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'died' becomes 'd' (abbreviation next to the year of someone's death).
'd'+'e'+'clare'+'d'='DECLARED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for declared that I've seen before include "Announced publicly" , "Named the trump suit in card game" , "Made clearly known" , "Closed an innings" , "Spoke or said dramatically" .)