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Advertise   /ˈædvərtˌaɪz/   Listen
Advertise

verb
(past & past part. advertised; pres. part. advertising)
1.
Call attention to.  Synonyms: advertize, publicise, publicize.
2.
Make publicity for; try to sell (a product).  Synonyms: advertize, promote, push.  "The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops"



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"Advertise" Quotes from Famous Books



... would not tempt you to pass more than three months in the year away from your Kentish comforts and cousins! Very well—then perish dreams of lord-lieutenancy; and learn the inevitable fate of your neglected literary offspring. The same day that Import and Profits advertise their London copies of "Napper Tandy," at five dollars a volume, any number of shirtless little vagabonds will be crying it in a pamphlet edition from Astor House to Wall Street, and through all the thoroughfares, for a currency shilling. I wish you might see your ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. • Various

... stamps will be of chief value to the Exposition, as they advertise it among the people of America. The Jubilee stamps will be one of the best advertisements the World's Fair will have. It would not be unfair if the Postoffice Department should demand that the managers of the World's Fair pay the additional expense ...
— Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia • Various

... interest in keeping out of sight the horrors of their system. It is besides no voluntary admission. Having "framed iniquity by law," it is out of their power to hide it. For the recovery of their runaway property, they are compelled to advertise in the public journals, and that it may be identified, they are under the necessity of describing the marks of the whip on the backs of women, the iron collars about the neck—the gun-shot wounds, and the traces of the branding-iron. Such testimony must, in the nature of ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... pursued Mr Vuffin, 'if you was to advertise Shakspeare played entirely by wooden legs,' it's my belief you wouldn't ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens

... had increased proportionately. He was annoyed to think that Jacky had retired at his coming. He was in no way blind to the reason of her sudden departure, but beyond his first remark he was not the man to advertise his chagrin. He ...
— The Story of the Foss River Ranch • Ridgwell Cullum


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