advert
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈædvɜː(ɹ)t/
advert (plural adverts)
- (British, informal) An advertisement, an ad.
- IPA: /ədˈvɜː(ɹ)t/
advert (adverts, present participle adverting; past and past participle adverted)
- (intransitive) To take notice, to pay attention (to). [from 15th c.]
- 2007 September 9, the Vatican (trans.), Pope Benedict XVI (speaker), speaking in German at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Austria:
- At a time when creation seems to be endangered in so many ways through human activity, we should consciously advert to this dimension of Sunday, too.
- 2007 September 9, the Vatican (trans.), Pope Benedict XVI (speaker), speaking in German at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Austria:
- (obsolete, transitive) To turn attention to, to take notice of (something). [15th–19th c.]
- (intransitive) To call attention, refer (to). [from 18th c.]
- 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’:
- ‘I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. But it is not to this fact that I now especially advert.’
- 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’:
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