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• POS: Noun

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ad, abbr. (of a date) of the Christian era.

Usage

Strictly, AD should precede a date (e.g. AD 410), but uses such as the tenth century AD are well established.

Etymology

Anno Domini, 'in the year of the Lord'

ad, n. colloq. an advertisement.

Etymology

abbr.

ROGET THESAURUS

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Publication

N publication, public announcement, promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento, circulation, indiction, edition, hue and cry, publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype, vox populi, report, the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily, telegraphy, publisher, imprint, circular, circular letter, manifesto, advertisement, ad, placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster, notice, published, current, in circulation, public, notorious, flagrant, arrant, open, trumpet-tongued, encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory, exoteric, publicly, in open court, with open doors, Int, Oyez!, O yes!, notice!, notice is hereby given, this is to give, these are to give notice, nomina stultorum parietibus haerent, semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.