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ad en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

Clipping of advertise, advertising, advertisement, or advertiser.

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of advertisement.
    • However, the ad that was seen as the most successful in 2000 reflected Chen Shui-bian's Taiwanese roots, that was the Kuantien Ad that showed the small town where he had grown up, his neighbours, relatives and people that had known him as a child. 2005, Dafydd Fell, “Party change on the national identity issue”, in Party Politics in Taiwan: Party change and the democratic evolution of Taiwan, 1991–2004, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114:
    • In the final few weeks before the vote, a rash of ads appeared on radio and TV claiming that Hillary Clinton was too frail, too liberal and too ethically compromised to become president. […] Not many people took Morris’s ad too seriously; most news outlets were pleased for a frothy story in an election that was short on light relief. 2019 July 28, Sam Wolfson, “Looking for Mr T: the politicisation of testosterone”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2024:
    • I have placed both of the ads in the newspaper as instructed.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of advertising.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of advertiser.
    alt of advertiser

Forms

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Deriveds

Mad Man · adwise · Adpocalypse · ad break · admass · banner ad · adless · admail · adland · adwoman · adsmith · ad-man · adlet · pause ad · ad-seg · ad blindness · adfolk · adblocking · adperson · small ad · ad-free · attack ad · adbot · personal ad · adman · want ad · adware · adspeak · ad truck · ad banner · classified ad · adblocker · ad inventory · ad in · adtech

Synonyms

advert

Translations (3)

fi mainos (clipping of advertisement — see also advertisement) · fr pub (clipping of advertisement — see also advertisement) · cy hysbýs (clipping of advertisement — see also advertisement)

Source: en.wiktionary, “ad” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

ad en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

Clipping of advantage.

Meanings

  1. 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:
  2. (qualifier:debating) Advantage
    • ads and disads

Forms

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ads Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

ad out · ad in

Source: en.wiktionary, “ad” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

ad en · ADP · etymology 3

Pronunciation

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ad (“to, on”).

Meanings

  1. to, toward

Relateds

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