1. describe or draw attention to (a product, service, or event) in a public medium in order to promote sales or attendance: "a billboard advertising beer"
▪ seek to fill (a vacancy) by putting a notice in a newspaper or other medium: "for every job we advertise we get a hundred applicants"
▪ make (a quality or fact) known: "Meryl coughed briefly to advertise her presence"
▪ notify (someone) of something:"some prisoners advertised the French of this terrible danger"
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French advertiss-, lengthened stem of advertir, from Latin advertere ‘turn towards’ (see advert2).
