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[əd'vɜːtɪzm(ə)nt;-tɪs-] or [,ædvɚ'taɪzmənt]
Definition
(n.) The act of informing or notifying; notification.
(n.) Admonition; advice; warning.
(n.) A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisements.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Announcement, notification, information, notice, proclamation, promulgation, trumpeting.
Editor: Pierre
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are getting out advertisements, denotes that you will have to resort to physical labor to promote your interest, or establish your fortune. To read advertisements, denotes that enemies will overtake you, and defeat you in rivalry.
Editor: Rebekah
Examples
- Besides, he is given up; nobody is looking after him, and nobody will take me up from the advertisement, I think. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I had an answer to my advertisement. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- This advertisement will appear in each of them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I don't know that your assistant is not as remarkable as your advertisement. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Was answering an advertisement about typewriting and came to the wrong number--very pleasant, genteel young woman, sir. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- From north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We have retained these things for some days, said Holmes, because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your address. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The advertisement promised payment according to the valuation, in case any wagons or horses should be lost. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The advertisement was to be answered by letter only. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The very first paragraph upon which Mr. Bumble's eye rested, was the following advertisement. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The advertisement directed us to apply to Mrs. Crupp on the premises, and we rung the area bell, which we supposed to communicate with Mrs. Crupp. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And all traces of Mr Julius Handford being lost, Lightwood now referred to his client for authority to seek him through public advertisement. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A little walnut bark has made my yellow skin a genteel brown, and I've dyed my hair black; so you see I don't answer to the advertisement at all. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In answer to an advertisement. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- That, however, I shall determine by a very simple test if we have an answer to our advertisement. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but without success. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I saw these advertisements about harpooners, and high wages, so I went to the shipping agents, and they sent me here. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Blucher's French is bad enough, but it is not much worse than the English one finds in advertisements all over Italy every day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Never collect anything but advertisements relative to next of kin. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He did advertise in the _Lexington Union_ in September, 1833, offering reapers for sale at fifty dollars; but there were no answers to his advertisements. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- All the advertisements were blacked out, supposedly to prevent communication in that way with the enemy. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Briggs wrote to me of a Jane Eyre: he said, the advertisements demanded a Jane Eyre: I knew a Jane Elliott. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I was fairly at the end of my tether at last, and could hardly find the stamps to answer the advertisements or the envelopes to stick them to. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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