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PROPAGANDA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("propaganda" is a kind of...):
info; information (a message received and understood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "propaganda"):
agitprop (political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema)
Derivation:
propagandise (spread by propaganda)
propagandise (subject to propaganda)
propagandist (a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government)
propagandistic (of or relating to or characterized by propaganda)
propagandize (spread by propaganda)
propagandize (subject to propaganda)
