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English

A Coca-Cola advertisement from the 1890s

Alternative forms

• advertizement

Etymology

From Middle French advertissement (“statement calling attention”), compare French avertissement (“warning”). See advertise.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ədˈvɜːtɪsmənt/ (occasionally IPA^(key): /ad.və.ˈtʌɪz.mənt// in some regions)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/

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• Hyphenation: ad‧ver‧tise‧ment

Noun

Wikipedia

advertisement (plural advertisements)

1. (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.

2. A public notice.

   The city council placed an advertisement in the local newspaper to inform its residents of the forthcoming roadworks.

3. A recommendation of a particular product, service or person.

   The people gave a good advertisement for Wiktionary.

Synonyms

• (commercial solicitation): ad, advert
• (public notice):

Derived terms

terms derived from advertisement

ad advert advertorial

classified advertisement pop-up advertisement

Hyponyms

• commercial
• infomercial

Related terms

• advertising
• adware

Translations

commercial solicitation

• Arabic: إيذان m ('idhaan), إعلان m ('i3laan)
• Armenian: գովազդ (govazd)
• Asturian: anunciu m
• Breton: bruderezh (br) m
• Bulgarian: реклама (bg) f (reklama)
• Catalan: anunci m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廣告, 广告 (zh) (guǎnggào)

• Czech: reklama (cs) f
• Danish: reklame (da)
• Dutch: reclame (nl) f, m, advertentie (nl) f
• Esperanto: reklamo
• Estonian: reklaam, propaganda (et), kuulutus
• Finnish: mainos (fi), mainostus
• French: publicité (fr) f, pub (fr) f, annonce (fr) f
• Galician: anuncio m
• German: Anzeige (de) f, Werbung (de) f, Annonce (de) f, Reklameanzeige f
• Greek: διαφήμιση (el) f (diafímisi)
• Hebrew: פרסומת f (pirsomet)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• 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
• Japanese: 広告 (ja) (こうこく, kōkoku), CM (シーエム, shī-emu)
• Korean: 광고 (ko) (gwanggo) (廣告 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: жарнама (ky) (carnama)
• Latin: prescriptio f

• Lithuanian: reklama
• Macedonian: реклама f (rekláma)
• Malay: iklan
• Maltese: riklam, pubbliċità, tgħarif kummerċjali
• Navajo: óʼoolkąąh
• Norwegian: reklame annonse
• Persian: تبلیغ (fa) (tabliğ), آنونس (ânons)
• Polish: reklama (pl) f
• Portuguese: anúncio (pt) m, publicidade (pt) f, reclame (pt) m, propaganda (pt) f
• Romanian: anunț (ro) n publicitate f, reclamă (ro) f
• Romansch: reclama f, publicitad f
• Russian: реклама (ru) f (rekláma), объявление (ru) n (ob”javlénije), анонс (ru) m (anóns), заявление (ru) n (zajavlénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: sanas-reic m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: реклама f, оглас m, објављење, извештење

  Roman: reklama f, oglas m, objavljenje, izveštenje

• Slovene: oglas (sl) m, reklama f
• Spanish: anuncio (es) m, publicidad (es) f, reclamo (es) m
• Swedish: annons (sv), annonsering (sv), reklam (sv)
• Tamil: விளம்பரம் (ta) (viḷamparam)
• Telugu: వ్యాపార ప్రకటన (vyāpāra prakaṭana)
• Thai: การโฆษณา (gaan kôhtsànaa)
• Turkish: reklam (tr), ilan (tr), duyuru (tr)
• Vietnamese: quảng cáo (vi) (廣告), giới thiệu (vi)
• Volapük: noted (vo), reklam (vo), nunam (vo)
• West Frisian: advertinsje, oankundiging
• Yiddish: רעקלאַמע f (reklame)

public notice

• Bulgarian: обявление (bg) (objavlenie), обява (bg) (objava)
• Finnish: ilmoitus (fi)
• German: Anzeige (de) f, Bekanntmachung (de) f
• Greek: διαφήμιση (el) f (diafímisi), αγγελία (el) f (angelía)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: بۆزانین

• Kyrgyz: жарыя (ky) (carıya)

• Macedonian: оглас m (óglas)
• Polish: ogłoszenie (pl) n, anons m
• Portuguese: edital m
• Romanian: anunț (ro) n (public)
• Russian: объявление (ru) n (ob”javlénije), анонс (ru) m (anóns), извещение (ru) n (izveščénije)

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Translations to be checked

• Volapük: noted