Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition


Advert

Ad-vert′

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Adverted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Adverting
.]
[L.
advertere
, v. t., to turn to;
ad
+
vertere
to turn: cf. F.
avertir
. See
Advertise
.]
To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; – with to;
as, he
adverted
to what was said
.
I may again
advert
to the distinction.
Owen.
Syn.- To refer; allude; regard. See
Refer
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Advert

ADVERT'

,
Verb.
I.
[L. adverto, of ad and verto, to turn.]
To turn the mind or attention to; to regard, observe, or notice: with to; as, he adverted to what was said, or to a circumstance that occurred.

Definition 2024


advert

advert

English

Noun

advert (plural adverts)

  1. (Britain, informal) An advertisement, an ad.
    • 2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC:
      This was a wonderful advert for the Premier League, with both Chelsea and United intent on all-out attack - but Ferguson will be concerned at how his side lost their way after imperiously controlling much of the first period.
    • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
      In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.

Translations

Verb

advert (third-person singular simple present adverts, present participle adverting, simple past and past participle adverted)

  1. To turn attention.
  2. To call attention, refer; construed with to.
    • 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.’
    • 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.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations