Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. 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.
- v. To make known; call attention to: advertised my intention to resign.
- v. To warn or notify: "This event advertises me that there is such a fact as death” ( Henry David Thoreau).
- v. To call the attention of the public to a product or business.
- v. To inquire or seek in a public notice, as in a newspaper: advertise for an apartment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To take note of; notice; observe.
- To inform; give notice, advice, or intelligence to, whether of a past or present event, or of something future: as, I advertised him of my intention.
- To give information to the public concerning; make public intimation or announcement of, by publication in periodicals, by printed bills, etc., as of anything for sale, lost or found, a meeting, an entertainment, or the like.
- Synonyms To apprise, inform.
- To make known, announce, proclaim, promulgate, publish.
- To take note; take heed; consider.
- To make public announcement of anything of which it is desired to inform the public; announce one's wishes or intentions by advertisement: as, to advertise for something that is wanted.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Archaic 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. - v. To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice.
WordNet 3.0
- v. call attention to
- v. make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
Etymologies
- From (the stem of) Anglo-Norman avertir, advertir, Middle French advertir, avertir ("to warn, give notice to"), with the ending assimilated to -ise, -ize and probably influenced by the noun advertisement. Compare also advert. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English advertisen, to notify, from Old French advertir, advertiss-, to notice; see advert1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Well, you could say I no longer feel the need to advertise the fact," I recall her saying, in so many words which, by the way, was the first use of the word "advertise" in this sense, which made an impression on me and has stayed with me still.”
“The only way you are allowed to advertise is either on or in your product, or during an in-store demonstration.”
“April 15th, 2010 at 9: 58 am nfl jerseys china says: blazonsites on searching. the web that buy their appurtenances anatomy suppliers at broad again advertise it to humans at bedrock basal prices.”
Think Progress » Uninformed Limbaugh Wonders ‘Where Was The Union’ At Non-Union Mine Disaster
“As there are sites on the web that buy their appurtenances anatomy suppliers at broad again advertise it to humans at bedrock”
“The only product they advertise is fear, Look what the non-citizen muslim President is doing now!”
“What the NFL does not advertise is that some of its non-benevolent behemoths spend their spare time engaged in mayhem, armed and unarmed.”
“Vitamins and water might seem like a good idea but what they don't advertise is that this water contains nearly as much calories and sugar as a can of soda.”
“The clinker is that the chain decides which Canadian authors they will display and advertise from a list of authors that the six publishers submit.”
“To me the standard should be simple, the price you advertise is the price you charge.”
“Plus, what if the writer and advertise is "off", and the brand that's supposed to be cool isn't?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘advertise’.
-
UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
-
IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
-
GRE
Taisha GRE Bible
archaic, archetype, archipelago, architect, archive, arctic, ardor, arduous, argot, arid, armory, arrest and 289 more...
-
list1
abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, ablution and 106 more...
-
Oxford 3000
Oxford 3000 is a list of the most common 3000 words in the English language publishe by OUP.
The keywords of the Oxford 3000 have been carefully selected by a group of language experts and ex...a, an, abandon, abandoned, ability, able, unable, about, above, abroad, absence, absent, absolute and 65 more...
-
VanishedOne's Words
facipulator, fetiphobia, gules, boustrophedon, reverse boustroph..., unreal, ensiform, xiphoid, romhack, heritage, floccinaucinihili..., johnian and 1004 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for advertise.
qroqqa 'I must advertise you, my dear, that my father is rather irritable.'
—Robert Bage, 1796, Hermsprong
This is OED sense 4. d., transitive with subordinate clause; not marked by them as obsolete, and they have an example from 1850, but as this word begins Ad- it probably hasn't been revised since 1889.
Hermsprong, by the way, is a delight: a satirical, didactic novel echoing Voltaire and prefiguring Jane Austen and Thomas Love Peacock. And I'd never heard of the author before!
Here's another example ibidem of a similar construction with recipient object:
In passing out they were met by Mr. Hermsprong, accompanied by the man-servant of the family, a man of a respectable appearance, who, on seeing the arrest of his master, had run of his own accord to a neighbouring village, to advertise a friend of Mr. Wigley's of this unhappy business. Mar 20, 2009
vanishedone Early to bed,
Early to rise,
Work like hell,
And advertise.
(Attributed to Ted Turner.) Aug 12, 2008