🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

publicités

Pronunciation / Transliteration: py.bli.si.te

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Adverts/ˈæd.vɜːts/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #2500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Il y a trop de publicités à la télévision."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Short plural form of advertisements; public notices or broadcasts designed to promote products, services, or events.

    "The television break was filled with loud and colorful adverts."
As verb
  1. 1

    Third-person singular present form of advert, meaning to refer or direct attention to something in speech or writing.

    "The speaker adverts to several key economic indicators in her opening remarks."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb 'vertere' (to turn) combined with the prefix 'ad-' (toward), entering Middle English via Old French 'avertir' and subsequently clipped from 'advertisements' in the 19th century. The term evolved from meaning a turning of the mind or attention to something into its modern sense of a public notice promoting a product, service, or event.

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