MEANING
1. To turn attention to something by referring to it.
2. An advertisement, especially in British usage.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- advert to a fact
- advert to earlier events
On the page
In the last paragraph she adverted to a promise he had not kept.
He adverted to the witness’s absence without explaining it.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- advert
- Past tense
- adverted
- Past participle
- adverted
- Present participle
- adverting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- advert
- Present continuous
- am/is/are adverting
- Present perfect
- have/has adverted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been adverting
- Past
- adverted
- Past continuous
- was/were adverting
- Past perfect
- had adverted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been adverting
- Future
- will advert
- Future continuous
- will be adverting
- Future perfect
- will have adverted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been adverting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: advert; adverts; adverted; adverted; adverting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: adverts.
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