Advertise - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Advertise :  (verb)
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]

Based on WordNet 2.0

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]

I will advertise thee what this people shall do. --Num. xxiv. 14.

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.

Syn: To apprise; inform; make known; notify; announce; proclaim; promulgate; publish.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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