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 Dictionary entry overview: What does advertisement mean? 

• ADVERTISEMENT (noun)
  The noun ADVERTISEMENT has 1 sense:

1. a public promotion of some product or service

  Familiarity information: ADVERTISEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVERTISEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A public promotion of some product or service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ad; advert; advertisement; advertising; advertizement; advertizing

Hypernyms ("advertisement" is a kind of...):

packaging; promo; promotion; promotional material; publicity (a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "advertisement"):

direct mail (advertising sent directly to prospective customers via the mail)

preview; prevue; trailer (an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future)

advertorial (an advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report)

mailer (an advertisement that is sent by mail)

newspaper ad; newspaper advertisement (a printed advertisement that is published in a newspaper)

commercial; commercial message (a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television)

bill; broadsheet; broadside; circular; flier; flyer; handbill; throwaway (an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution)

teaser (an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest)

top billing (the advertisement of a star's name at the top of a theatrical poster)

Derivation:

advertise (make publicity for; try to sell (a product))

 Context examples 

The advertisement was to be answered by letter only.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Was answering an advertisement about typewriting and came to the wrong number—very pleasant, genteel young woman, sir.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day lately.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Record of a series of messages in the advertisements of a paper.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Looking up suddenly, he read the tender advertisement in her face.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Pickwick, the president, read the paper, which was filled with original tales, poetry, local news, funny advertisements, and hints, in which they good-naturedly reminded each other of their faults and short comings.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Lady Bertram's being just on the other side of the table was a trifle, for she might always be considered as only half-awake, and Edmund's advertisements were still of the first utility.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Briggs wrote to me of a Jane Eyre: he said, the advertisements demanded a Jane Eyre: I knew a Jane Elliott.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Cherokee wagged the stump of his tail in advertisement that he understood the meaning of the blows, but that he knew he was himself in the right and only doing his duty by keeping his grip.

(White Fang, by Jack London)