(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ədˈvɜːtɪsmənt/, occasionally /ˈædvəˌtaɪzmənt/
(General American) /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/, less often IPA^(key): /ədˈvɝtɪzmənt/
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(New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈædvəˌtʌɪzmənt/, /ədˈvɜːtɪsmənt/
(Singapore) IPA^(key): /ˌædvəˈtɪzmənt/
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Hyphenation: ad‧ver‧tise‧ment

Noun

advertisement (countable and uncountable, plural advertisements)

(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
Companies try to sell their products using advertisements in form of placards, television spots and print publications.
A public notice.
The city council placed an advertisement in the local newspaper to inform its residents of the forthcoming roadworks.
A recommendation of a particular product, service or person.
The good manners and intelligence of the students are an advertisement for the school.
(obsolete) Notoriety.
(card games) In gin rummy, the discarding of a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
- 1947, On Gin Rummy: An All-American Roundup (page 121)
  The safest time to answer a possible advertisement is when you have no indication as to what suit your opponent wants. Then even if he has advertised, the odds are that your answer is not the card he is looking for.

Synonyms

(commercial solicitation): ad, advert

Hyponyms

commercial
infomercial

Derived terms

ad
advert
advertorial
classified advertisement
personal advertisement
pop-up advertisement
surreptitious advertisement

Related terms

advertising
adware

Translations

commercial solicitation

Albanian: publicitet (sq) m
Arabic: إِيذَان‎ m (ʾīḏān), إِعْلَان‎ m (ʾiʿlān), إِشْهَار‎ m (ʾišhār)
Armenian: գովազդ (hy) (govazd)
Asturian: anunciu m
Azerbaijani: reklam (az), elan (az)
Belarusian: рэкла́ма f (rekláma), аб'я́ва f (abʺjáva)
Bengali: বিজ্ঞাপন (bn) (bigẏapôn)
Breton: bruderezh (br) m
Bulgarian: рекла́ма (bg) f (rekláma), рекламна обява f (reklamna objava),
Burmese: ကြော်ငြာစာ (my) (krau-ngraca), ကြော်ငြာ (my) (krau-ngra)
Catalan: anunci (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 廣告, 广告 (gwong² gou³), 告白 (gou³ baak⁶)
Mandarin: 廣告 (zh), 广告 (zh) (guǎnggào)
Min Nan: 廣告 (zh-min-nan), 广告 (kóng-kò)
Cornish: argemmyn m
Czech: reklama (cs) f
Danish: reklame (da)
Dutch: reclame (nl) f or m, advertentie (nl) f
Erzya: рамавтомапель (ramavtomapelʹ), рамавтомка (ramavtomka)
Esperanto: reklamo
Estonian: reklaam, propaganda (et), kuulutus
Finnish: mainos (fi), mainostus (fi)
French: publicité (fr) f, pub (fr) f, annonce (fr) f
Galician: anuncio m
Georgian: რეკლამა (reḳlama), განცხადება (gancxadeba)
German: Anzeige (de) f, Werbung (de) f, Annonce (de) f, Reklameanzeige f, Reklame (de) f
Greek: διαφήμιση (el) f (diafímisi)
Ancient: προγραφή f (prographḗ)
Gullah: abbuhtizemu’t
Hebrew: פִּרְסוֹמֶת‎ (he) f (pirsómet)
Hindi: इश्तहार (hi) m (iśtahār), विज्ञापन (hi) m (vigyāpan)
Hungarian: hirdetés (hu), reklám (hu)
Icelandic: auglýsing (is) f
Indonesian: iklan (id), reklame (id)
Interlingua: annuncio, publicitate, reclamo, propaganda
Italian: annuncio (it) m, pubblicità (it) f, raccomandazione (it) f
Japanese: 広告 (ja) (こうこく, kōkoku), ＣＭ (シーエム, shī-emu)
Kazakh: жарнама (kk) (jarnama)
Khmer: ឃោសនា (km) (khoosaʼnaa), ការផ្សាយពាណិជ្ជកម្ម (kaa phsaay piənɨccĕəʼkam), ការផ្សាយ (kaa phsaay), ដំណឹងពាណិជ្ជកម្ម (dɑmnəng piənɨccĕəʼkam) (on radio or TV)
Korean: 광고(廣告) (ko) (gwanggo)
Kyrgyz: жарнама (ky) (jarnama)
Lao: ການໂຄສະນາ (lo) (kān khō sa nā)
Latin: prescriptio f
Latvian: reklāma f
Lithuanian: reklama f
Macedonian: рекла́ма f (rekláma)
Malay: iklan (ms)
Malayalam: പരസ്യം (ml) (parasyaṃ)
Maltese: riklam, pubbliċità, tgħarif kummerċjali
Maori: whakatairanga, pānui
Mongolian: зар сурталчилгаа (mn) (zar surtalčilgaa)
Navajo: óʼoolkąąh
Nepali: विज्ञापन (ne) (bigyāpan)
Norwegian: reklame annonse
Occitan: anóncia (oc) f
Pashto: اشتهار‎ (ps) m (eštehãr)
Persian: تبلیغ‎ (fa) (tabliğ), آنونس‎ (ânons), اعلان‎ (fa) (e'lân)
Polish: reklama (pl) f
Portuguese: anúncio (pt) m, publicidade (pt) f, reclame (pt) m, propaganda (pt) f
Romanian: anunț (ro) n, publicitate (ro) f, reclamă (ro) f
Romansch: reclamă f, publicitad f
Russian: рекла́ма (ru) f (rekláma), объявле́ние (ru) n (obʺjavlénije), ано́нс (ru) m (anóns), заявле́ние (ru) n (zajavlénije)
Scottish Gaelic: sanas-reic m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: реклама f, оглас m, објављење, извештење
Roman: reklama (sh) f, oglas (sh) m, objavljenje (sh), izveštenje
Slovak: reklama f
Slovene: oglas (sl) m, reklama f
Spanish: anuncio (es) m, publicidad (es) f, reclamo (es) m, aviso (es) m, aviso publicitario m, anuncio publicitario m
Swedish: annons (sv), annonsering (sv), reklam (sv)
Tagalog: pamadya, patalastas, adbertisment
Tajik: реклама (reklama), таблиғ (tabliġ), таблиғот (tabliġot), иълон (iʾlon)
Tamil: விளம்பரம் (ta) (viḷamparam)
Telugu: వ్యాపార ప్రకటన (vyāpāra prakaṭana)
Thai: การโฆษณา (th) (gaan-kôot-sà-naa)
Turkish: reklam (tr), ilan (tr), duyuru (tr)
Turkmen: reklama
Ukrainian: рекла́ма (uk) f (rekláma), оголо́шення (uk) n (oholóšennja), ано́нс (uk) m (anóns), зая́ва f (zajáva)
Uzbek: reklama (uz), eʻlon
Vietnamese: quảng cáo (vi) (廣告 (vi)), giới thiệu (vi) (介紹)
Volapük: noted (vo), reklam (vo), nunam (vo)
Võro: reklaam
Welsh: hysbyseb (cy) f
West Frisian: advertinsje, oankundiging
Yiddish: רעקלאַמע‎ f (reklame)

public notice

Belarusian: аб'я́ва f (abʺjáva)
Bulgarian: обявле́ние (bg) n (objavlénie), обя́ва (bg) f (objáva)
Dutch: aankondiging (nl) f
Finnish: ilmoitus (fi)
French: avis (fr) m, annonce (fr) f
German: Anzeige (de) f, Bekanntmachung (de) f
Greek: διαφήμιση (el) f (diafímisi), αγγελία (el) f (angelía)
Ancient: προγραφή f (prographḗ)
Hebrew: מוֹדָעָה‎ (he) f (moda'a)
Hungarian: közlemény (hu), értesítés (hu), hirdetmény (hu)
Italian: annuncio (it) m
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بۆزانین‎ (bozanîn)
Kyrgyz: жарыя (ky) (jarıya)
Latvian: sludinājums m
Macedonian: о́глас m (óglas)
Malayalam: വിജ്ഞാപനം (ml) (vijñāpanaṃ)
Maori: pānui, whakaaturanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: annonse m
Nynorsk: annonse m
Occitan: anóncia (oc) f
Polish: ogłoszenie (pl) n, anons (pl) m inan
Portuguese: edital (pt) m
Romanian: anunț (ro) n (public)
Russian: объявле́ние (ru) n (obʺjavlénije), ано́нс (ru) m (anóns), извеще́ние (ru) n (izveščénije)
Ukrainian: оголо́шення (uk) n (oholóšennja)

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Volapük: ^{(please verify)} noted (vo)

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