Advertise - Definitions from Dictionary.com

6 results for: Advertise

Facebook Advertising Reach the exact audience you want with relevant targeted ads. www.facebook.com/ads/	Sponsored Links

Advertise Advertise Your Website Here, Fast. Risk Free Advertising - Try Now! Google.AdvertisingWebService.com

Promote Your Business Using Yodle's local online advertising services. Free guide. www.yodle.com

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This

ad·ver·tise

Audio Help [ad-ver-tahyz, ad-ver-tahyz] Pronunciation Key verb, -tised, -tis·ing.

–verb (used with object)

1.	to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.

2.	to give information to the public about; announce publicly in a newspaper, on radio or television, etc.: to advertise a reward.

3.	to call attention to, in a boastful or ostentatious manner: Stop advertising yourself!

4.	Obsolete. to give notice, advice, or information to; inform: I advertised him of my intention.

5.	Obsolete. to admonish; warn.

–verb (used without object)

6.	to ask for something by placing a notice in a newspaper, over radio or television, etc.: to advertise for a house to rent.

7.	to offer goods for sale or rent, solicit funds, etc., by means of advertisements: It pays to advertise.

Cards.

a.	Poker. to bluff so as to make the bluff obvious.

b.	Rummy. to discard a card in order to induce an opponent to discard one of the same suit or denomination.

Also, advertize.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME advertisen < MF avertiss-, long s. of avertir < VL *advertire, L advertere to advert¹; the expected ME *advertishen prob. conformed to advertisement or the suffix -ize

]

—Related forms

ad·ver·tis·a·ble

Audio Help [ad-ver-tahy-zuh-buh

l, ad-ver-tahy-] Pronunciation Key, adjective

ad·ver·tis·er, noun

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Facebook Advertising Reach the exact audience you want with relevant targeted ads. www.facebook.com/ads/	Sponsored Links

Advertise Advertise Your Website Here, Fast. Risk Free Advertising - Try Now! Google.AdvertisingWebService.com

Promote Your Business Using Yodle's local online advertising services. Free guide. www.yodle.com

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Advertise

To learn more about Advertise visit Britannica.com

Easy Banner Advertising Choose your ad, customize it, and start advertising on top web sites. www.AdReady.com	Sponsored Links

Social Advertising Reach the exact audience you want with highly targeted ads. Cubics.com

American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

ad·ver·tise Audio Help   (ād'vər-tīz') Pronunciation Key
v.   ad·ver·tised, ad·ver·tis·ing, ad·ver·tis·es

v.   tr.

To make public announcement of, especially to proclaim the qualities or advantages of (a product or business) so as to increase sales. See Synonyms at announce.
To make known; call attention to: advertised my intention to resign.
To warn or notify: "This event advertises me that there is such a fact as death" (Henry David Thoreau).

v. intr.

To call the attention of the public to a product or business.
To inquire or seek in a public notice, as in a newspaper: advertise for an apartment.

[Middle English advertisen, to notify, from Old French advertir, advertiss-, to notice; see advert¹.]

ad'ver·tis'er n.

(Download Now or Buy the Book)

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
advertise

c.1430, "to take notice of," from M.Fr. advertiss-, prp. stem of a(d)vertir "warn," from L. advertere "turn toward," from ad- "toward" + vertere "to turn" see versus). Original sense remains in advert "to give attention to." Sense of advertise shifted to "give notice to others, warn" (1490) by influence of advertisement, which meant "public notice (of anything, but often of a sale)" by c.1460. The modern, commercial meaning was fully developed by 18c.

WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This

advertise
verb
1.	call attention to; "Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS"
2.	make publicity for; try to sell (a product); "The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model"; "The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops"

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
advertise [ˈӕdvətaiz] verb

to make (something) known to the public by any of various methods
Example: I've advertised (my house) in the newspaper; They advertised on TV for volunteers.

Arabic:	يُـعْلِن، يَنْشُر إعْلانَاً
Chinese (Simplified):	为…作广告
Chinese (Traditional):	為…作廣告
Czech:	inzerovat; hledat inzerátem
Danish:	annoncere; reklamere; avertere
Dutch:	adverteren
Estonian:	kuulutama
Finnish:	ilmoittaa, mainostaa
French:	annoncer
German:	inserieren, werben
Greek:	διαφημίζω
Hungarian:	hirdet
Icelandic:	auglÿsa
Indonesian:	mengiklankan
Italian:	fare pubblicità, mettere un annuncio

Japanese:	広告する
Korean:	광고하다
Latvian:	ievietot sludinājumu; reklamēt
Lithuanian:	paskelbti, reklamuoti
Norwegian:	avertere, reklamere, kunngjøre
Polish:	reklamować
Portuguese (Brazil):	anunciar
Portuguese (Portugal):	anunciar
Romanian:	a face un anunţ public privitor la; a face reclamă
Russian:	рекламировать; давать объявление
Slovak:	inzerovať, hľadať na inzerát
Slovenian:	oglašati
Spanish:	anunciar, hacer publicidad
Swedish:	annonsera, göra reklam
Turkish:	reklâm yapmak, ilân etmek

See also: advertisement, advertiser

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Advertise

Ad*vert"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Adverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adverting.] [L. advertere, v. t., to turn to; ad + vertere to turn: cf. F. avertir. See Advertise.] To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

I may again advert to the distinction. --Owen.

Syn: Syn.- To refer; allude; regard. See Refer.

Browse Nearby Entries: