vt to give public notice of; to announce publicly, ·esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.
2. advertise ·vt to give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn;
often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss.