advertise

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: ad=ver=tise

CIDE DICTIONARY

advertise, v. t. [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.  [1913 Webster]

  "I will advertise thee what this people shall do."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

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

OXFORD DICTIONARY

advertise, v.
1 tr. draw attention to or describe favourably (goods or services) in a public medium to promote sales.
2 tr. make generally or publicly known.
3 intr. (foll. by for) seek by public notice, esp. in a newspaper.
4 tr. (usu. foll. by of, or that + clause) notify.

Derivative

advertiser n.

Etymology

ME f. OF avertir (stem advertiss-): see ADVERT(2)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

advertise

Publication

VB publish, make public, make known, speak of, talk of, broach, utter, put forward, circulate, propagate, promulgate, spread, spread abroad, rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate, put forth, give forth, send forth, emit, edit, get out, issue, bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public, give out, give to the world, put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about, drag into the open day, voice, proclaim, herald, blazon, blaze abroad, noise abroad, sound a trumpet, trumpet forth, thunder forth, give tongue, announce with beat of drum, announce with flourish of trumpets, proclaim from the housetops, proclaim at Charing Cross, advertise, placard, post, post up afficher, publish in the Gazette, send round the crier, raise a cry, raise a hue and cry, raise a report, set news afloat, be published, be public, become public, come out, go about, fly about, buzz about, blow about, get about, get abroad, get afloat, get wind, find vent, see the light, go forth, take air, acquire currency, pass current, go the rounds, go the round of the newspapers, go through the length and breadth of the land, virum volitare per ora, pass from mouth to mouth, spread, run like wildfire, spread like wildfire.