advertising
Syllables: ad·ver·tis·ing/ˈædvəˌtaɪzɪŋ/US/ˈædvɚˌtaɪzɪŋ/
advertising noun: communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services. Also the present participle and gerund of advertise.
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
- [...] the women were presumably going shopping at the department stores growing up along Oxford Street, and the Central's nearness to these stores would make the advertising space in its stations the most expensive on the Underground.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 117
- Synonyms:
- billing
- The industry or profession made up of such communications.
Also used as
advertising is also the present participle and gerund of advertise.
advertising meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
advertising in Hindi
- communication
- विज्ञापन vijñāpan
- industry or profession
- विज्ञापन vijñāpan
advertising in Tamil
- communication
- விளம்பரம் viḷamparam
- industry or profession
- விளம்பரம் viḷamparam
advertising in Marathi
- जाहिरात
advertising in Urdu
- communication
- اشتہار بازی iśtihār bāzī
- industry or profession
- اشتہار بازی iśtihār bāzī
More languagesFewer languages
- advertising in Bengali
- বিজ্ঞাপন bijnapon
- advertising in Malayalam
- പരസ്യം, പരസ്യം ചെയ്യുന്നു
- advertising in Kannada
- ಜಾಹೀರಾತು
- advertising in Punjabi
- ਵਿਗਿਆਪਨ, ਇਸ਼ਤਿਹਾਰਬਾਜ਼ੀ
- advertising in Gujarati
- જાહેરાત
- advertising in Odia
- ବିଜ୍ଞାପନ
- advertising in Nepali
- विज्ञापन, विज्ञापन गर्ने
- advertising in Arabic
- إِعْلَان ʔiʕlān, إِشْهَار ʔišhār
- advertising in Malay
- pengiklanan, iklan
- advertising in Persian
- تبلیغات tabliġât
- advertising in Thai
- การโฆษณา gaan-kôot-sà-naa
- advertising in Vietnamese
- sự quảng cáo
- advertising in Myanmar
- ကြော်ငြာ krau-ngra
Examples of advertising in a sentence
- A free, open Internet without advertising or paywalls would be an infotopia.
- The Wonder Bread advertising research results showed the “White Picket Fence” commercial had strong fit ratings.
- I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
Synonyms of advertising
Forms of advertising
| plural | advertisings |
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Origin of advertising
From advertise + -ing.
Words formed from advertising
- advertecture
- advertising agency
- advertisingese
- advertising mail
- antiadvertising
- bait advertising
- catvertising
- counteradvertising
- dark advertising
- deceptive advertising
- experiential advertising
- false advertising
- femvertising
- hunkvertising
- hyperadvertising
- institutional advertising
- malvertising
- mapvertising
- native advertising
- nonadvertising
- oddvertising
- shockvertising
- sky advertising
- spamvertising
- subvertising
- surreptitious advertising
- surrogate advertising
- two-price advertising
- unadvertising
- webvertising
Phrases with advertising
Questions about advertising
- What does advertising mean?
- Advertising means communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.
- What is advertising in Hindi?
- Advertising in Hindi is विज्ञापन (vijñāpan). See Advertising meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is advertising?
- Advertising is a noun.
- How do you pronounce advertising?
- Advertising is pronounced /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzɪŋ/ (US).
- What is the plural of advertising?
- The plural of advertising is advertisings.
Words near advertising in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: advertising (page history and authors); advertising (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); advertising (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); advertising (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); advertising (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); advertising (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); advertising (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); advertising (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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