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PROPAGANDIST

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("propagandist" is a kind of...):

communicator (a person who communicates with others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "propagandist"):

sloganeer (someone who coins and uses slogans to promote a cause)

Instance hyponyms:

Goebbels; Joseph Goebbels; Paul Joseph Goebbels (German propaganda minister in Nazi Germany who persecuted the Jews (1897-1945))

Derivation:

propaganda (information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause)

propagandist (of or relating to or characterized by propaganda)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characterized by propaganda

Synonyms:

propagandist; propagandistic

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

propagandist (a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government)

Derivation:

propagandist (a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government)

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