Advertise

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Advertise \Ad`ver*tise"\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Advertised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Advertising}.] [F. avertir,
     formerly also spelt advertir, to warn, give notice to, L.
     advertere to turn to. The ending was probably influenced by
     the noun advertisement. See {Advert}.]
     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]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           I will advertise thee what this people shall do. --Num.
                                                    xxiv. 14.
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     4. 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.
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     Syn: To apprise; inform; make known; notify; announce;
          proclaim; promulgate; publish.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  advertise
       v 1: call attention to; "Please don't advertise the fact that he
            has AIDS" [syn: {publicize}, {advertize}, {publicise}]
       2: make publicity for; try to sell (a product); "The salesman
          is aggressively pushing the new computer model"; "The
          company is heavily advertizing their new laptops" [syn: {advertize},
           {promote}, {push}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "advertise":
     acquaint, advertise of, advise, air, announce, annunciate, apprise,
     ballyhoo, bark, bill, blazon, blazon forth, boost, brandish, brief,
     bring word, broadcast, bruit about, build up, bulletin,
     circularize, communicate, cry, cry up, dangle, demonstrate,
     disclose, display, emblazon, enlighten, establish, exhibit,
     familiarize, flash, flaunt, flourish, give a write-up, give notice,
     give publicity, give the facts, give word, hold up, impart, inform,
     instruct, leave word, let know, manifest, mention to, notify,
     parade, placard, plug, post, post bills, post up, press-agent,
     proclaim, promote, promulgate, propagandize, publicize, publish,
     puff, push, put forth, put forward, recount, relate, report, sell,
     send word, serve notice, sound, speak, spiel, sport, tell, trumpet,
     trumpet forth, vaunt, verse, wave, write up