Advertise

Quick meaning: Advertise is a verb meaning (transitive) To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.

Meaning

(transitive) To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others.
2. (transitive) To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public awareness and increase sales.
3. (transitive, now rare) To notify (someone) of something; to call someone's attention to something.
4. (card games) In gin rummy, to discard a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.

Example Sentences

For personal needs, advertise on the internet or in a local newspaper.

Over the air, they advertise their product on drive-time radio talk shows and TV news shows.

The safest time to answer a possible advertisement is when you have no indication as to what suit your opponent wants. Then even if he has advertised, the odds are that your answer is not the card he is looking for.

Socrates being advertiſed, that the God of wiſdome, had attributed the name of wiſe vnto him, was thereat much aſtoniſhed, and diligently ſearching and rouzing vp himſelf, and ranſaking the very ſecrets of his heart, found no foundation or ground for his divine ſentence.

Word Forms

• advertises
• advertising
• advertised
• advertize

Synonyms for advertise

Depending on context, synonyms include notify, inform, apprise, alert, announce, proclaim.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include advertize, publicize, publicity, publicise, advertisement, propaganda.

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