advertisement Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a public promotion of some product or service
    ad; advert; advertising; advertizement; advertizing.

WordNet

Ad*ver"tise*ment noun
Etymology
F.avertisement, formerly also spelled advertissement, a warning, giving notice, fr. avertir.
Definitions
  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 advertisement.

Webster 1913