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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ADVER'TISEMENT, n. Information; admonition, notice given. More generally, a publication intended to give notice; this may be, by a short account printed in a newspaper, or by a written account posted, or otherwise made public.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a public promotion of some product or service [syn: ad, advertisement, advertizement, advertising, advertizing, advert]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. the act or process of advertising 2. a public notice; especially one published in the press or broadcast over the air

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a public notice or announcement, esp. one advertising goods or services in newspapers, on posters, or in broadcasts. 2 the act or process of advertising. 3 archaic a notice to readers in a book etc. Etymology: earlier avert- f. F avertissement (as ADVERTISE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Advertisement Ad*ver"tise*ment ([a^]d*v[~e]r"t[i^]z*ment or [a^]d`v[~e]r*t[imac]z"ment; 277), n. [F. avertisement, formerly also spelled advertissement, a warning, giving notice, fr. avertir.] 1. The act of informing or notifying; notification. [Archaic] An advertisement of danger. --Bp. Burnet. 2. Admonition; advice; warning. [Obs.] Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement. --Shak. 3. A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisements.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(advertisements) 1. An advertisement is an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about something such as a product, event, or job. (WRITTEN) Miss Parrish recently placed an advertisement in the local newspaper. = advert, ad N-COUNT: oft N for n 2. If you say that an example of something is an advertisement for that thing in general, you mean that it shows how good that thing is. (mainly BRIT) The England team were a poor advertisement for European football tonight... N-COUNT: usu a N for n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Announcement, notification, information, notice, proclamation, promulgation, trumpeting.

Moby Thesaurus

ad, advert, advertising, announcement, ballyhoo, bill, blurb, broadcast, broadside, brochure, circular, classified, commercial, handbill, hype, notice, placard, plug, poster, proclamation, promotion, promulgation, pronouncement, pronunciamento, propaganda, publication, publicity, puffery, spot announcement