ADVERTISE

advertise, publicize, advertize, publicise

(verb) call attention to; “Please don’t advertise the fact that he has AIDS”

advertise, advertize, promote, push

(verb) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

advertise (third-person singular simple present advertises, present participle advertising, simple past and past participle advertised)

(transitive) To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly. [from 15th c.]

(intransitive) To provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others. [from 18th c.]

(transitive) To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public awareness and increase sales. [from 19th c.]

(transitive, now rare) To notify (someone) of something; to call someone's attention to something. [from 15th c.]

(card games) In gin rummy, to discard a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.

Synonyms

• (tell about): notify, inform, apprise, (with urgency) alert

• (give public notice): make known, announce, proclaim, promulgate, (uncommon use) publish

• (advertise commercially): promote, publicise, sell

Anagrams

• derivates

Source: Wiktionary

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Ad`ver*tise", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advertised; p. pr. & vb. n. Advertising.] Etym: [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.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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