notice

English Online Dictionary. What means notice‎? What does notice mean?

English

Alternative forms

• not. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French notice, from the Latin nōtitia. Doublet of notitia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnəʊtɪs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnoʊtɪs/, [ˈnoʊɾɪs]
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊtɪs, (General American) -oʊtɪs
• Hyphenation: no‧tice

Noun

notice (countable and uncountable, plural notices)

1. (chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
2. (countable) A written or printed announcement.

3. (countable) A formal notification or warning.

5. (chiefly uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.

6. (countable) A published critical review of a play or the like.
7. (uncountable) Prior notification.
8. (dated) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.

Synonyms

• (attention): heed, regard;see also Thesaurus:attention

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

notice (third-person singular simple present notices, present participle noticing, simple past and past participle noticed)

1. (transitive, now rare) To remark upon; to mention. [from 17th c.]
2. (transitive) To become aware of; to observe. [from 17th c.]
3. (obsolete, transitive) To lavish attention upon; to treat (someone) favourably. [17th–19th c.]
4. (intransitive) To be noticeable; to show. [from 20th c.]

Synonyms

• recognize

Antonyms

• ignore
• neglect

Translations

Anagrams

• conite, ecotin, neotic, noetic

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nōtitia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ.tis/

Noun

notice f (plural notices)

1. instruction

References

• “notice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.