ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Ad

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /æd/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Ad is a noun meaning Clipping of advertisement.

Meaning

Clipping of advertisement.

More Meanings

  1. Clipping of advertising.
  2. Clipping of advertiser.
  3. (debating) Advantage
  4. to, toward
  5. (tennis) Advantage; also, designating the left-hand side, from the player's point of view, of their half of the court, where the advantage point following a deuce is always played.

Example Sentences

ads and disads
I have placed both of the ads in the newspaper as instructed.
[S]uddenly Agassi hits a hard heavy cross-court back hand that pulls Federer way out to his ad (= his left) side, and Federer gets to it but slices the stretch backhand short, a couple feet past the service line […].
However, the ad that was seen as the most successful in 2000 reflected Chen Shui-bian's Taiwanese roots, that was the Kuantien Ad that showed the small town where he had grown up, his neighbours, relatives and people that had known him as a child.

Synonyms for ad

Depending on context, synonyms include advert, advertising, advertisement.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include advertising, advert, advertisement, lib, libbed, libbing.

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