advertise
verb
Simple meaning
To provide public information about to attract public awareness and increase sales.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
advertyzSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈædvɚtaɪz
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
verb
transitive
To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public awareness and increase sales.
intransitive
To provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others.
transitive
To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A1 · Beginner
- Frequency
- Very Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public awareness and increase sales.
Used this way, advertise is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- No strong connotation
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
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- “Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS.”verb
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Word Family
Related forms, grouped by how they connect.
Inflected forms
Grammatical variations of the same word.
A public promotion of some product or service.
Someone whose business is advertising.
Word family
Words built from the same root.
A public promotion of some product or service.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
The division of a business that is responsible for advertising.
An agency that designs advertisement to call public attention to its clients.
An organized program of advertisements.
The division of a business that is responsible for advertising.
Related Words
Connected to the same idea, not synonyms.
- advertisementnoun
- advertisingnoun
- brandnoun
- productnoun
- posternoun
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