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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Clipping of advertise, advertising, advertisement, or advertiser.

Noun

ad (plural ads)

  1. Abbreviation of advertisement.
    Synonym: advert
    I have placed both of the ads in the newspaper as instructed.
    • 2019 July 28, Sam Wolfson, “Looking for Mr T: the politicisation of testosterone”, in The Guardian:
      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.
  2. Abbreviation of advertising.
  3. Abbreviation of advertiser.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From a shortening of the word advantage.

Noun

ad (plural ads)

  1. (tennis) 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.
    • 2006, David Foster Wallace, “Federer Both Flesh And Not”, in Both Flesh And Not, Penguin, published 2013, page 5:
      [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 [] .
  2. (debating) advantage
    ads and disads
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Latin ad (to, on).

Preposition

ad

  1. to, toward

Anagrams

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Alemannic German

Contraction

ad

  1. contraction of a + d
    Basel isch glaubs scho chli, dass du wahrschinlich bis ad Uni chasch laufe.
    Basel is seemingly small, for you to go walking to uni.

Azerbaijani

More information Cyrillic, Arabic ...

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آد (ad, ād, name), from Proto-Turkic *āt. Compare Turkish ad, Gagauz aad, Turkmen at.

Pronunciation

Noun

ad (definite accusative adı, plural adlar)

  1. name, first name
    • 1899, Nariman Narimanov, Türk-Azərbaycan diliniŋ müxtəsər sərf-nəhvi [Concise grammar of the Azerbaijani Turkic language] 18:
      اونیگ آدی نه‌ در؟
      Onıŋ adı nədir? [=Onun adı nədir?]
      What is his/her name?
  2. (grammar) noun
    Synonym: isim

Declension

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More information nominative, singular ...

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Lezgi: ад (ad)

Further reading

  • ad” in Obastan.com.
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Pronunciation

Noun

ad

  1. fire

References

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Danish at, from Old Norse at, from Proto-Germanic *at.

Pronunciation

Preposition

ad

  1. by
  2. at
Descendants
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ad

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Interjection

ad

  1. ew, bleah
Synonyms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

ad m (plural ads, diminutive [please provide])

  1. (in NL-HaNA_1.04.02) abbreviation of annō Dominī

Gagauz

Pronunciation

Noun

ad (definite accusative adı, plural adlar)

  1. alternative form of aad

Declension

More information singular (tekil), plural (çoğul) ...
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Hungarian

Ido

Irish

Italian

Latin

Manx

Meriam

Mokilese

Old English

Old French

Phrygian

Portuguese

Pumpokol

Romanian

Salar

Sardinian

Sassarese

Scottish Gaelic

Sumerian

Tarifit

Turkish

Veps

Vietnamese

Volapük

Welsh

Yola

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