Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

self-advertisement en · NOUN

Etymology

From self- + advertisement.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) self-promotion
    • When these lesser things count more than the greater, bragging and self-advertisement come to the fore because they pay, as they have throughout our history. 1997 November 2, “In America, Boasting Has Proud History”, in The New York Times:
    • A great believer in karma, and nearly as frank in his confessions as he was exuberant in his self-advertisements, Norman Mailer was surely convinced that he would get the biography he deserved. 2013 October 20, Adam Begley, “Norman Mailer: A Life Lived Loud”, in The Daily Beast:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
self-advertisements Number=Plur lexicographic