ADVERTISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does advertise mean? 

• ADVERTISE (verb)
  The verb ADVERTISE has 2 senses:

1. call attention to

2. make publicity for; try to sell (a product)

  Familiarity information: ADVERTISE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVERTISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they advertise    ... he / she / it advertises   
Past simple: advertised   
Past participle: advertised   
-ing form: advertising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Call attention to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

advertise; advertize; publicise; publicize

Context example:

Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS

Hypernyms (to "advertise" is one way to...):

announce; denote (make known; make an announcement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "advertise"):

headline (publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline)

ballyhoo (advertize noisily or blatantly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make publicity for; try to sell (a product)

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

advertise; advertize; promote; push

Context example:

The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops

Hypernyms (to "advertise" is one way to...):

praise (express approval of)

Verb group:

agitate; campaign; crusade; fight; press; push (exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "advertise"):

propagandise; propagandize (spread by propaganda)

plug (make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote)

bill (advertise especially by posters or placards)

agitate; campaign; crusade; fight; press; push (exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

advertisement (a public promotion of some product or service)

advertiser (someone whose business is advertising)

advertising (the business of drawing public attention to goods and services)

advertising (a public promotion of some product or service)

 Context examples 

It will start a controversy that will be worth thousands to you just in advertising.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but without success.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nor was he slow in advertising the fact.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You can also make March 20 the start date of your carefully crafted advertising campaign or give focus to your publicity or social media program.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Olfactory signals are ubiquitous among mammals and serve to advertise quality and reproductive state, but they are poorly understood, said Michelle Elekonich, a program director in NSF's Directorate for Biological Sciences.

(Lemurs can smell whether a mate's immune genes are a good match, National Science Foundation)

Cigarettes are no longer allowed to be labeled or advertised as light cigarettes.

(Light cigarette, NCI Dictionary)

Cigarettes are no longer allowed to be labeled or advertised as low tar cigarettes.

(Low tar cigarette, NCI Dictionary)

Every movement advertised commingled threatening and overture of friendliness.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There the dog unmistakably advertised itself.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Not to advertise: and to trust this quest of a situation to me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)