ad
/æd//ˌeɪˈdi/
ad is the clipping of advertisement.
ad is the clipping of advertising.
ad is the clipping of advertiser.
Noun (1)
ad (plural ads)
- Advantage; also, designating the left-hand side, from the player's point of view, of their half of the court, where the advantage point following a deuce is always played.
- [S]uddenly Agassi hits a hard heavy cross-court back hand that pulls Federer way out to his ad (= his left) side, and Federer gets to it but slices the stretch backhand short, a couple feet past the service line […].2006, David Foster Wallace, “Federer Both Flesh And Not”, in Both Flesh And Not, Penguin, published 2013, page 5
- Advantage
- ads and disads
Meaning of advertisement
Noun
advertisement (countable and uncountable, plural advertisements)
- 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.
- Notoriety.
- 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.
- 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.1947, On Gin Rummy: An All-American Roundup, page 121
- A preface.
Meaning of advertising
Noun
advertising (usually uncountable, plural advertisings)
- Communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.
- Advertisings do not by themselves cause a book to 'go'. The circulating libraries are far more useful than any advertising columns.1899, Walter Besant, The Pen and the Book
- Synonyms:
- billing
- The industry or profession made up of such communications.
Preposition
ad
Adverb capitalized: AD
AD
- Initialism of Anno Domini (borrowed from Latin); in the year of our Lord.
- They had a vibrant culture from the 3rd century BC to the 2nd century AD.
- Today is 1 October AD 2026.
- Synonyms:
- AC, A.C., anno Domini, CE, Christian Era, in the year of our Lord
Noun (2) capitalized: AD
AD (countable and uncountable, plural ADs)
- Initialism of assistant director.
- A few moments later, the A.D. reappears. "They need you," she says. "And could you stop by Wardrobe?" Shannen rolls her eyes. "O.K.!" she snaps.1993 November, Lynn Hirschberg, “Brat on a Hot Tin Roof”, in Vanity Fair
- Initialism of air defence or air defense.
- Initialism of antidepressant.
- Initialism of auxiliary destroyer (a naval tender, a destroyer tender that tends to destroyers).
- Initialism of Alzheimer's disease.
- Many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), involve pathological protein deposits.2015 December, Stéphane Larochelle, “STOMPing at the bits”, in Nature Methods, volume 12, number 12, →DOI, →ISSN, page 1114
- What the person with AD chooses to enunciate, ‘may capture something important in the way the person makes sense of his or her life and also make meaning-based connections’ (Hydén and Örulv 2009: 206).2021, Pramod K. Nayar, Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs: Poetics of the Forgetting Self, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 76
- Initialism of atopic dermatitis.
- Initialism of airworthiness directive.
- Abbreviation of audio description.
- Initialism of after dark.
- AD account
Adjective capitalized: AD
AD (not comparable)
- Initialism of antidumping.
Proper noun capitalized: AD
AD
- Initialism of Abu Dhabi.
Noun (3) capitalized: Ad
Ad (plural Ads)
- Abbreviation of adenovirus.
Synonyms of ad
- advert
- AC
- A.C.
- anno Domini
- CE
- Christian Era
- in the year of our Lord
Antonyms
Forms of ad
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ads |
| plural | ADs |
| plural | Ads |
| Adverb | |
| alternative form | A.D. |
| alternative form | A. D. |
Origin of ad
Clipping of advertise, advertising, advertisement, or advertiser.
Clipping of advantage.
Borrowed from Latin ad (“to, on”).
Words formed from ad
- Ad group A
- Ad group B
- Ad group C
- Ad group D
- Ad species A
- Ad species B
- Ad species C
- Ad species D
- Ad subgroup A
- Ad subgroup B
- Ad subgroup C
- Ad subgroup D
- Ad type A
- Ad type B
- Ad type C
- Ad type D
- ad banner
- ad blindness
- adblocker
- adblocking
- adbot
- ad break
- adfolk
- ad-free
- ad inventory
- adland
- adless
- adlet
- admail
- ad-man
- adman
- admass
- adperson
- Adpocalypse
- ad-seg
- adsmith
- adspeak
- adtech
- ad truck
- adware
- adwise
- adwoman
- attack ad
- banner ad
- classified ad
- Mad Man
- pause ad
- personal ad
- small ad
- want ad
- ad in
- ad out
Phrases with ad
- ad hom
- ad lip
- ad homs
- ad libs
- ad lips
- ad hocly
- ad vivum
- ad breaks
- Ad Dammam
- ad hocery
- ad hocism
- ad hocrat
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- ad libbed
- ad trucks
- ad verbum
- ad banners
- ad hocisms
- ad hockery
- ad hocness
- ad hocracy
- ad hocrats
- ad hominum
- ad libbing
- ad nauseum
- ad feminams
- ad hoceries
- ad hominems
- ad particle
- ad valorems
- ad hockeries
- ad hocracies
- ad particles
- ad inventories
- ad valorem tax
- ad verecundiam
- de die ad diem
- Kafr ad Dawwar
- ad verecundiams
- termini ad quem
- termini ad quos
- actio ad distans
- ad valorem taxes
- terminus ad quem
- consensus ad idem
- guardian ad litem
- argumenta ad fidem
- guardians ad litem
- ad vitam aut culpam
- argumentum ad fidem
- damnatio ad bestias
- ad interim copyright
- argumenta ad feminam
- argumenta ad hominem
- argumenta ad Lazarum
- argumenta ad populum
- reductio ad absurdum
- reductio ad Hitlerum
- reductio ad Stalinum
- ad interim copyrights
- argumenta ad crumenam
- argumentum ad baculum
- argumentum ad feminam
- argumentum ad hominem
- argumentum ad lapidem
- argumentum ad Lazarum
- argumentum ad nauseam
- argumentum ad numerum
- argumentum ad populum
- constructio ad sensum
- reductio ad absurdums
- reductio ad Hitlerums
- reductios ad absurdum
- argumenta ad passiones
- argumentum ad crumenam
- argumentum ad invidiam
- argumentum ad judicium
- argumentums ad hominem
- restitutio ad integrum
- argumentum ad passiones
- argumenta ad verecundiam
- constructiones ad sensum
- subpoena ad respondendum
- argumentum ad ignorantiam
- argumentum ad verecundiam
- subpoena ad testificandum
- subpoenas ad respondendum
- argumentum ad dictionarium
- subpoenas ad testificandum
- argumentum ad consequentiam
Words that rhyme with ad
Questions about ad
- What does ad mean?
- Ad means advantage; also, designating the left-hand side, from the player's point of view, of their half of the court, where the advantage point following a deuce is always played.
- What is ad the clipping of?
- Ad is the clipping of advertisement.
- What part of speech is ad?
- Ad can be a noun, a preposition, an adverb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce ad?
- Ad is pronounced /æd/.
- What is the plural of ad?
- The plural of ad is ads.
Words near ad in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ad (page history and authors); AD (page history and authors); Ad (page history and authors); advertisement (page history and authors); advertising (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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