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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

... of the Capitolium, which is not well known among those who do not make a profession of archaeology. It was used as a place for advertising State acts, deeds, and documents, in order that the public might take notice of them and be informed of what was going on in the administrative, military, and political departments. This fact is known from a clause appended to imperial letters-patent by which veterans ...

— Pagan and Christian Rome • Rodolfo Lanciani

... age, and an advertising age is a sensational age. Religion itself—the staid, the demure—shares in the general tendency. She preaches in the style of the auction room, she beats drums and shakes tambourines in the streets, she affects criminals and dotes on ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote

... captain of the finest polo team on the frontier; the one great tournament of the year—open to every Punjab regiment, horse and foot—would begin in less than a fortnight; and he, who had never parted with a polo pony in his life, was advertising the pick of his stable for sale. A proceeding so unprecedented, so perplexing to all who knew him, could not, in the nature of things, be passed over in silence. Desmond knew—none better—that victory or defeat may hang on the turn of a hair; that, skilled player though he ...

— Captain Desmond, V.C. • Maud Diver

... purity by a little track where a child's shoes had brought in mud from the street; doubtless it had been washed over since the Sunday morning's custom had subsided. Wherever the walls would have confessed their bareness the enterprising tradesman had hung gorgeous advertising cards. At the sound of the visitors' footsteps, the door leading out of the shop into the parlour behind opened briskly, a head having previously appeared over the red curtain, and Mr. O'Gree, in the glory of Sunday attire, rushed forward with eager ...

— The Unclassed • George Gissing

... a mistake," he said seriously. "If you wish for reputation and fame in this world, and success during your lifetime, you ought to seize every opportunity of advertising yourself. You remember the Latin word, 'Fame springs from one's own house.' Like other wise sayings, it's not quite true; fame comes from oneself," and he laughed delightedly; "you must go about repeating how great you are till the dull crowd comes ...

— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris

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