Meaning of "advertisement" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF ADVERTISEMENT

advertisement  [ədˈvɜːtɪsmənt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADVERTISEMENT

Advertisement is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ADVERTISEMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Advertising

Advertising or advertizing in business is a form of marketing communication used to encourage, persuade, or manipulate an audience to take or continue to take some action. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common. This type of work belongs to a category called affective labor. In Latin, ad vertere means "to turn toward". The purpose of advertising may also be to reassure employees or shareholders that a company is viable or successful. Advertising messages are usually paid for by sponsors and viewed via various old media; including mass media such as newspaper, magazines, television advertisement, radio advertisement, outdoor advertising or direct mail; or new media such as blogs, websites or text messages. Commercial advertisers often seek to generate increased consumption of their products or services through "branding", which involves associating a product name or image with certain qualities in the minds of consumers.

Definition of advertisement in the English dictionary

The definition of advertisement in the dictionary is any public notice, as a printed display in a newspaper, short film on television, announcement on radio, etc, designed to sell goods, publicize an event, etc Shortened forms: ad, advert.

SYNONYMS OF «ADVERTISEMENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «advertisement» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of advertisement

ad · advert · announcement · bill · blurb · circular · commercial · display · notice · placard · plug · poster · promotion · publicity · puff

TRANSLATION OF ADVERTISEMENT

Find out the translation of advertisement to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of advertisement from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «advertisement» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 广告
• Translator English - Spanish: anuncio
• English: advertisement
• Translator English - Hindi: विज्ञापन
• Translator English - Arabic: إِعْلان
• Translator English - Russian: рекламное объявление
• Translator English - Portuguese: anúncio
• Translator English - Bengali: বিজ্ঞাপন
• Translator English - French: publicité
• Translator English - Malay: Iklan
• Translator English - German: Anzeige
• Translator English - Japanese: 広告
• Translator English - Korean: 광고
• Translator English - Javanese: Iklan
• Translator English - Vietnamese: quảng cáo
• Translator English - Tamil: விளம்பரம்
• Translator English - Marathi: जाहिरात
• Translator English - Turkish: reklâm
• Translator English - Italian: pubblicità
• Translator English - Polish: ogłoszenie
• Translator English - Ukrainian: рекламне оголошення
• Translator English - Romanian: anunț
• Translator English - Greek: διαφήμιση
• Translator English - Afrikaans: advertensie
• Translator English - Swedish: reklamannons
• Translator English - Norwegian: annonse

10 QUOTES WITH «ADVERTISEMENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word advertisement.

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Michael D. Barnes

The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads.

2

David Brinkley

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

3

Pierre Charron

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

4

Irvin S. Cobb

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

5

Charles Edwards

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

6

Bridget Hall

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

7

Claude C. Hopkins

The right name is an advertisement in itself.

8

Jerome K. Jerome

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

9

JR

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.'

10

Brian Koslow

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADVERTISEMENT»

Discover the use of advertisement in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to advertisement and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

An Advertisement Touching a Holy War

An Advertisement Touching a Holy War gives a great philosophers reasons for initiating the war between science and religion that was actually fought in the coming centuries in Western civilization and of which we are the heirs.

Francis Bacon, Laurence Lampert, 2000

Semiotics and Shock Advertisement

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: Excellent, The University of Surrey (Department of English), course: Language of Advertising, language: English, ...

Corinna Colette Vellnagel, 2011

Black Humour in British Advertisement

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: 2,0 (B), http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Intercultural Economic Communications), course: Culture and Business UK, 8 ...

Claudia Felsch, 2007

Verbal and pictorial metaphor in advertisement

The wordmetaphorhas its origin in the Greek wordmetaphorá,a noun meaning "a transfer, especially in meaning, from one word to another".

Miriam Volkmann, 2006

Psychoanalysis and Attitudes in Modern Advertisement

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: 2.0, TU Dortmund (Institut fur Anglistik), course: Popular Culture: Theories and Practices, language: English, ...

Deborah De Muijnck, 2010

Verbal Art Across Cultures: The Aesthetics and ...

Overview This paper presents an analysis of advertisement spots based on the theory of communicative genres. Following previous research on the generic and typological features of advertisement spots, we present the results of a genre ...

Hubert Knoblauch, Helga Kotthoff, 2001

Improving Advertisement Efficiency with Information Systems ...

Project Report from the year 2010 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: 1,0, Queensland University of Technology, course: Information Systems Design, language: English, abstract: This report has been ...

M. Riechert, A. Alredainy, J. Beierer, 2011

Targeting Media

... the editor unit 75 Advertisements 79 Newspaper advertisement scaffold 81 Sample annotated advertisement 82 Advertisement units: The Australian 83 Arnott's 87 Classified advertisements 91 Sample annotated classifieds 92 Magazines 96 ...

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Advertisement Call Complexity in Northern Leopard Frogs, ...

ADVERTISEMENT CALL COMPLEXITY IN NORTHERN LEOPARD FROGS, RANA PIPIENS Abstract The advertisement call produced by Rana pipiens males may be the most complex of any temperate-zone anuran. To characterize call ...

Krista Ann Larson, 2007

The typography of press advertisement: a practical summary ...

These sheets are then available for immediate checking of roughs against the ultimate background of the finished advertisement. A series of templates which should be overhauled occasionally in order to keep the pages in accord with current ...

Kenneth Day, 1956

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADVERTISEMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term advertisement is used in the context of the following news items.

American fighter jet F18 used in IAF advertisement

New Delhi: A controversy has erupted over an Indian Air Force recruitment advertisement in which the picture of an American F18 fighter ... «IBNLive, Jul 15»

Corporation removes advertisement boards

In the last few days, the Coimbatore Corporation has removed 403 advertisement boards attached to the poles that carried traffic signal lights at ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»

DBKL Instructs Multimedia Company To Retract Hari Raya …

"DBKL has also instructed the company to retract the advertisement to avoid negative public perceptions," he said in a statement today. «malaysiandigest.com, Jul 15»

Advertisement: Buildings Alive, Building systems engineer

At Buildings Alive, we are passionate about making the built environment more sustainable. We are a creative, agile and ambitious ... «The Fifth Estate, Jul 15»

Too bad, they don't know it's a wombat

The Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has had to temporarily remove a wombat advertisement from an electronic billboard at Bukit Bintang ... «The Star Online, Jul 15»

Crumbs for Sanitation Workers, Crores for Advertisement: Congress …

526 crore as advertisement funds instead, terming it as an exercise of "self publicity". "AAP government has put a huge outlay in its maiden ... «NDTV, Jul 15»

Newspaper advertisement of notice of postal ballot

July 4, 2015: HPC Biosciences Ltd has submitted to BSE a copy of advertisement published in newspaper regarding notice of postal ballot. Pdf Link: Newspaper ... «Hindu Business Line, Jul 15»

Opposition slams AAP government for setting aside Rs 526 crore for …

The government, however, strongly defended the allocation arguing that a separate head has been created for publicity and advertisement for ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»

Kokomo man using mobile advertisement to find a new kidney for …

Jim Spier is hitting the road with a purpose. He's going the extra mile around Kokomo to find a kidney donor for his wife. The couple saw the ... «WTTV CBS4Indy, Jul 15»

Class Certification of California Price Advertisement Case Gives …

A recent class certification decision in California involving challenges to a retailer's price comparison advertisements should prompt retailers to ... «JD Supra, Jul 15»