n. Notification; information.n. The act or practice of bringing anything, as one's wants or one's business, into public notice, as by paid announcements in periodicals, or by handbills, placards, etc.: as, to secure customers by advertising. Often used attributively: as, an advertising agent; an advertising scheme; an advertising medium.Attentive; adverting; giving attention.Giving public notice; publishing advertisements: as, the advertising public.