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/ədvˈərtəzmənt/ /ˌædvərtˈaɪzmənt/ Listen

noun

Advertisement n.

The act of informing or notifying; notification. (Archaic) "An advertisement of danger."

Admonition; advice; warning. (Obs.) "Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement."

A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisements.

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Etymology of 'Advertisement'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... have plenty of common sense. I wish to rescue you, Zara. You are becoming a prey to morbid fancies; your naturally healthy mind is full of extravagant notions concerning angels and demons and what not; and your entire belief in, and enthusiasm for, your brother is a splendid advertisement for him. Let me tear the veil of credulity from your eyes. Let me teach you how good a thing it is to live and love and laugh like other people, and leave electricity to the telegraph-wires ...

— A Romance of Two Worlds • Marie Corelli

... advertisements," retorted Madame Recamier. "As I was saying, an advertisement could be placed in Boswell's paper as follows: 'Are you giving a Function? Do you want Talent? Get your Genius at the Recamier Salon (Limited).' It would be simply magnificent as a business enterprise. The common herd would be tickled to death if ...

— The Pursuit of the House-Boat • John Kendrick Bangs

... observed this, I do not understand. Would it have served as an advertisement? Should I have said that the author resided in Canada to secure his book against the imminent danger of piracy in England? Or does Professor Whitney suspect here too, one of those sinister influences which he thought had interfered ...

— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller

... littered with catalogues, pamphlets, letters and papers sent from dozens of schools, and from the quantity of them one would fancy that every school in the country was represented. This was the result of an advertisement in the "Times" for a school in which young children are received, carefully trained, thoroughly taught, and which can furnish unquestionable references regarding its ...

— Caps and Capers - A Story of Boarding-School Life • Gabrielle E. Jackson

... me," said Master Chuter, speaking of Jan, "who the boy be. It be no fault of his'n if he's a fondling. And one thing's sure enough. Them that left him with Master Lake left something besides him. There was that advertisement,—you remember that about the five-pound bill in the ...

— Jan of the Windmill • Juliana Horatia Ewing

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