PROPAGANDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does propaganda mean? 

• PROPAGANDA (noun)
  The noun PROPAGANDA has 1 sense:

1. information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause

  Familiarity information: PROPAGANDA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPAGANDA (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)

 Context examples 

He talked with a quartermaster off duty, an intelligent man who promptly prodded him with the socialist propaganda and forced into his hands a bunch of leaflets and pamphlets.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)