Usually means: Advertisement, promoting products or services.
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We found 73 dictionaries that define the word ad:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. AD, -ad, ad, ad-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. AD, -ad, -ad, ad, ad, ad, ad-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. A.D, AD, ad, ad, ad-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -ad, ad, ad-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. A.D, AD, ad: Vocabulary.com
  6. A.D, AD, A'd, Ad-, Ad, Ad, a'd, ad, ad, ad, ad, ad-, aD: Wordnik
  7. A.D, AD, a.d, ad: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. A.D, 'ad, -ad, ad, ad-: Wiktionary
  9. -ad, ad, ad-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. A.D, ad, ad-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ad: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. AD(G), Ad-, -ad, .ad, a.d, ad, ad, ad-: Dictionary.com
  13. A.D, -ad, ad, ad-: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. a.d, ad: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. .AD, A.D, A.D. (film), A.D. (miniseries), AD (band), AD (disambiguation), AD (poem), AD, 'Ad, A.d, Ad (disambiguation), Ad (name), Ad, .ad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ad-: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ad-: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. A.d, ad: Rhymezone
  19. Ad-: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ad: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. -ad, ad-: MyWord.info
  22. A.D, AD, .ad, ad: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. a.d, ad, ad-: Free Dictionary
  24. a.d, ad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. AD, a.d, ad: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. A.D, AD, ad-: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. A.D, AD, ad: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Ad, ad, ad: Cooking Dictionary
  4. ad-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  5. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. AD (disambiguation), AD: Financial dictionary
  4. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AD, ad: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. AD: CCI Computer
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. A.D, AD (disambiguation), AD: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Ad-: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Sleep Terms (No longer online)
  6. AD (disambiguation), AD, -ad, a.d, ad-: Medical dictionary
  7. Ad-: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. AD, AD, AD: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. AD(G), AD: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Science (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. ad: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. A.D: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  4. AD: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  5. Ad, ad: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  6. AD: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  7. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)
  8. ad: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  9. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  10. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ad, ad, ad, ad: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Ad: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. A.D, a.d: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AD: Dog Fanciers Acronym List
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AD: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

(Note: See ading as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (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.
noun:  (debating) advantage
adverb:  (often punctuated) Initialism of annō Dominī (borrowed from Latin); in the year of our Lord.
noun:  (film) Initialism of assistant director.
noun:  (military) Initialism of air defence or air defense.
noun:  (pharmacology) Initialism of antidepressant. [(pharmacology) An agent that prevents or counteracts depression.]
noun:  (US, Navy) Initialism of auxiliary destroyer (a naval tender, a destroyer tender that tends to destroyers).
noun:  (uncountable, pathology) Initialism of Alzheimer's disease. [(neurology, pathology) A disorder involving loss of mental functions resulting from brain tissue changes; senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type.]
noun:  (aviation) Initialism of airworthiness directive. [(aviation, law) A regulation issued by the civil aviation authority of a country or region, generally in response to the discovery of an unsafe condition affecting particular aircraft, requiring that certain actions (such as specified modifications or enhanced maintenance or inspection requirements) be performed on these aircraft in order for them to remain legally airworthy.]
noun:  (television) Abbreviation of audio description. [An audio track on a video recording, timed to the footage of a film, that typically consists of a narrator describing what is happening in the film being shown.]
adjective:  (business) Initialism of antidumping. [(economics, trade, diplomacy) Intended to combat or prevent dumping, the sale of goods below cost for anticompetitive purposes]
noun:  Initialism of Abu Dhabi. [The capital city of the United Arab Emirates; capital of Abu Dhabi emirate.]
noun:  (India) Initialism of Andhra Pradesh. [A state in southeastern India, where Telugu is the primary language. Capital: Amaravati.]
noun:  Abbreviation of advertisement. [(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.]
noun:  Abbreviation of advertising. [Communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.]
noun:  Abbreviation of advertiser. [One who advertises.]
noun:  (virology) Abbreviation of adenovirus. [(medicine) Any virus of the family Adenoviridae, many of which are responsible for respiratory infections in humans]

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