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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 /ˈædvətaɪzmənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/, rarely /ədˈvɝtɪzmənt/

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈædvəˌtʌɪzmənt/, /ədˈvɜːtɪsmənt/
• Hyphenation: ad‧ver‧tise‧ment

Noun

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

• Albanian: publicitet (sq) m
• Arabic: إِيذَان‏‎ m (ʾīḏān), إِعْلَان‏‎ m (ʾiʿlān)
• Armenian: գովազդ (hy) (govazd)
• Asturian: anunciu m
• Belarusian: рэкла́ма f (rekláma), аб'я́ва f (abʺjáva)
• Bengali: বিজ্ঞাপন (biggapôn)
• Breton: bruderezh (br) m
• Bulgarian: рекла́ма (bg) f (rekláma), рекламна обява f (reklamna objava),
• Burmese: ကြော်ငြာစာ (my) (krau-ngraca)
• Catalan: anunci 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, 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
• Greek: διαφήμιση (el) f (diafímisi)
• Gullah: abbuhtizemu’t
• Hebrew: פִּרְסוֹמֶת‏‎ (he) f (pirsómet)
• Hindi: इश्तहार (hi) m (iśtahār), विज्ञापन (hi) m (vijñāpan)
• 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)
• Khmer: ឃោសនា (km) (kʰousnaa, kʰousa’naa), ការផ្សាយពាណិជ្ជកម្ម (kaa psaay pienɨc kam), ការផ្សាយ (kaa psaay), ដំណឹងពាណិជ្ជកម្ម (dɑmnəŋ pienɨc kam) (on radio or TV)
• Korean: 광고 (ko) (gwanggo) (廣告 (ko))

• Kyrgyz: жарнама (ky) (carnama)
• Lao: ການໂຄສະນາ (lo) (kān khō sa nā)
• Latin: prescriptio f
• Latvian: reklāma f
• Lithuanian: reklama f
• Macedonian: рекла́ма f (rekláma)
• Malay: iklan
• Maltese: riklam, pubbliċità, tgħarif kummerċjali
• Maori: whakatairanga, pānui
• Mongolian: зар сурталчилгаа (mn) (zar surtalčilgaa)
• 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: 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
• Tamil: விளம்பரம் (ta) (viḷamparam)
• Telugu: వ్యాపార ప్రకటన (vyāpāra prakaṭana)
• Thai: การโฆษณา (th) (gaan-kôot-sà-naa)
• Turkish: reklam (tr), ilan (tr), duyuru (tr)
• Ukrainian: рекла́ма (uk) f (rekláma), оголо́шення (uk) n (oholóšennja), ано́нс (uk) m (anóns), зая́ва f (zajáva)
• Vietnamese: quảng cáo (vi) (廣告), giới thiệu (vi)
• 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)
• Hebrew: מוֹדָעָה‏‎ f (moda'a)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: بۆزانین‏‎

• Kyrgyz: жарыя (ky) (carıya)

• Latvian: sludinājums m
• Macedonian: о́глас m (óglas)
• Maori: pānui, whakaaturanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: annonse m

  Nynorsk: annonse m

• 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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Translations to be checked

• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} noted