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means A public notice or paid message designed to promote a product, service, idea, or event and persuade people to want or do something.

from From Latin advertere, "to turn toward" (ad-, "to," plus vertere, "to turn"), which gave Old French avertir and its noun advertissement — originally just a "notice" meant to turn your attention somewhere. The word entered English by way of French, and for centuries it simply meant any announcement or warning. Only later, as commerce and printing grew, did it narrow to the sense of paid persuasion — the turning of heads toward things for sale.