ADVERTISED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does advertised mean? 

• ADVERTISED (adjective)
  The adjective ADVERTISED has 1 sense:

1. called to public attention

  Familiarity information: ADVERTISED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVERTISED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Called to public attention

Context example:

these advertised products

Similar:

publicised; publicized (made known; especially made widely known)

 Context examples 

Every movement advertised commingled threatening and overture of friendliness.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

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

(Light cigarette, NCI Dictionary)

Warren's Monthly advertised to its subscribers that it was always on the quest after new writers, and that, among others, it had introduced Martin Eden to the reading public.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There the dog unmistakably advertised itself.

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

His shoulders, relaxed and drooping, and his head on his knees advertised that he had given up the struggle.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was disposed of to a bookseller, it was even advertised, and why the business proceeded no farther, the author has never been able to learn.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I advertised, and Mrs. Fairfax answered my advertisement.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

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

(Low tar cigarette, NCI Dictionary)

Would you mind reading me the advertised description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?

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