Advertise vs. Promote — What's the Difference?

Describe or draw attention to (a product, service, or event) in a public medium in order to promote sales or attendance

To raise to a more important or responsible job or rank.

To make public announcement of, especially to proclaim the qualities or advantages of (a product or business) so as to increase sales.

To advance (a student) to the next higher grade.

To make known; call attention to

To contribute to the progress or growth of; further.

To warn or notify

To urge the adoption of; advocate

To call the attention of the public to a product or business.

To attempt to sell or popularize by advertising or publicity

To inquire or seek in a public notice, as in a newspaper

To help establish or organize (a new enterprise), as by securing financial backing

(transitive) To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.

(transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.

(intransitive) To provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others.

(transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.

(transitive) To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public awareness and increase sales.

(transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.

To notify (someone) of something; to call someone's attention to something.

To elevate to a higher league.

(card games) In gin rummy, to discard a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.

To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.

To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; - often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss.

To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.

To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

To move on to a subsequent stage of education.

Call attention to;

To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture.

Make publicity for; try to sell (a product);

To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer.

To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person.

Contribute to the progress or growth of;

Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position;

Make publicity for; try to sell (a product);

Be changed for a superior chess or checker piece

Change a pawn for a king by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it the row closest to your opponent