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/ˈædvərtˌaɪzɪŋ/ Listen

noun

advertising n.

A communication publicly promoting some product or service.

Synonyms: ad, advertisement, advert

The business of advertising; the activity engaged in by professional publicists for pay.

Synonyms: advertizing, publicizing, the advertising profession, the advertising industry

verb

Advertise v. t. (past & past part. advertised; pres. part. advertising)

To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss. (Archaic) "I will advertise thee what this people shall do."

To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

Synonyms: To apprise; inform; make known; notify; announce; proclaim; promulgate; publish.

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Etymology of 'Advertising'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Advertising" Quotes from Famous Books

... copy of the United's standard recruiting circular. This space might have been filled much more profitably with brief original comments by the editor on the numerous exchanges which are listed in another part of his paper. The paid advertising and subscription price are not to be commended. Such things have no place in a truly amateur paper. But continued membership in the United will doubtless fill Mr. Harrington with the genuine amateur spirit, and cause The Coyote ...

— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft

... you mustn't speak too fast. It's advertising—does the word frighten you? No? Well, it's a scheme I've thought of for a little really artistic and humorous advertising combined. I've got a promise from one of the most original artists of the day, you ...

— Young Lives • Richard Le Gallienne

... Yet on the other hand, argues Coleridge, would not 'any wise and beneficent old man,' without specifying his rank, have met the necessities of the case? Why, certainly, if it is our opinion that Coleridge wishes to have, we conceive that such an old gentleman, advertising in the Times as 'willing to make himself generally useful,' might have had a chance of dropping a line to William Wordsworth. But still we don't know. Beneficent old gentlemen are sometimes great scamps. Men, who give themselves the best of characters in morning papers, are watched occasionally ...

— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey

... go together, was one cause for the disfavor which came to attend its use. Typesetting machines constructed without proper provision for the composition of italic have been very influential in restricting its use. Italics are now practically abolished from newspaper work except in advertising matter, though they were used in newspapers to ...

— The Uses of Italic - A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters • Frederick W. Hamilton

... the generous view of doing me a good turn by giving me the almost inestimable advantage of advertising myself in Messrs. TOWERS & Co.'s widely-circulated Magazine, you propose to interview me, and receive from me such orally given information as you may require concerning my life, history, work, and everything about myself which, in your opinion, would interest the readers of this Magazine. ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., October 25, 1890 • Various

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