advertise Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb call attention to
    publicise; publicize; advertize.
    • Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS
  2. verb make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
    push; promote; advertize.
    • The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model
    • The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops

WordNet

Ad`ver*tise" transitive verb
Etymology
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.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Advertised present participle & verbal noun Advertising
Definitions
  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Webster 1913