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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Clipping of advertise, advertising, advertisement, or advertiser.
Noun
ad (plural ads)
- 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.
- Abbreviation of advertising.
- Abbreviation of advertiser.
Derived terms
Translations
short form of advertisement — see also advertisement
Etymology 2
From a shortening of the word advantage.
Noun
ad (plural ads)
- (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 […] .
- (debating) advantage
- ads and disads
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Preposition
ad
Related terms
- ab ovo usque ad mala
- ad absurdum
- ad arbitrium
- ad astra
- ad baculum
- ad captandum
- ad coelum
- ad damnum
- ad eundem
- ad extremum
- ad feminam
- ad fontes
- ad gloriam
- ad hoc
- ad hominem
- ad idem
- ad infinitum
- ad int.
- ad interim
- ad kalendas Graecas
- ad lib., ad lib
- ad libitum
- ad litem
- ad litteram
- ad loc., ad loc
- ad majorem Dei gloriam
- ad modum
- ad modum Donders
- ad nauseam
- ad orientem
- ad personam
- ad quod damnum
- ad referendum
- ad rem
- ad seriatum
- ad unguem
- ad val
- ad valorem
- ad valorem tax
- ad verbum
- ad verecundiam
- ad vitam aut culpam
- ad vivum
- a maximis ad minima
- amicus usque ad aras
- argumentum ad baculum
- argumentum ad consequentiam
- argumentum ad crumenam
- argumentum ad dictionarium
- argumentum ad feminam
- argumentum ad fidem
- argumentum ad hominem
- argumentum ad ignorantiam
- argumentum ad invidiam
- argumentum ad judicium
- argumentum ad lapidem
- argumentum ad Lazarum
- argumentum ad nauseam
- argumentum ad numerum
- argumentum ad passiones
- argumentum ad populum
- argumentum ad verecundiam
- consensus ad idem
- constructio ad sensum
- de die ad diem
- guardian ad litem
- habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
- per angusta ad augusta
- reductio ad absurdum
- reductio ad Hitlerum
- retrad
- sic itur ad astra
- subpoena ad testificandum
- terminus ad quem
Anagrams
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Alemannic German
Contraction
ad
Azerbaijani
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)
- 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?
- اونیگ آدی نه در؟
- (grammar) noun
- Synonym: isim
Declension
Derived terms
- ad-san
- adax
- adaxlama
- adaxlamaq
- adaxlandırma
- adaxlandırmaq
- adaxlanma
- adaxlanmaq
- adaxlı
- adaxlıbazlıq
- adaxlılıq
- adaqlamaq
- adaqlanmaq
- adaqlı
- adaş
- adaşlıq
- adbaad
- adda-budda
- adda-buddalıq
- adıbədnam
- adıbədnamlıq
- adıbilinməz
- adıvayqanlı
- adqoydu
- adqoyma
- adlama
- adlamaq
- adlandırılma
- adlandırılmaq
- adlandırma
- adlandırmaq
- adlanma
- adlanmaq
- adlı
- adlı-sanlı
- adlıq
- adsız
- adsız-sansız
- adsızlıq
- ata adı
- soyad
Descendants
- → Lezgi: ад (ad)
Further reading
- “ad” in Obastan.com.
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Blagar
Pronunciation
Noun
ad
References
- A. Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1
- The Rosetta Project, Blagar Swadesh List
- Stokhof (1975)
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Danish at, from Old Norse at, from Proto-Germanic *at.
Pronunciation
Preposition
ad
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
Synonyms
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
ad m (plural ads, diminutive [please provide])
- (in NL-HaNA_1.04.02) abbreviation of annō Dominī
Gagauz
Pronunciation
Noun
ad (definite accusative adı, plural adlar)
- alternative form of aad
Declension
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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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