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PROPAGANDIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does propagandist mean? 

PROPAGANDIST (noun)
  The noun PROPAGANDIST has 1 sense:

1. a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some governmentplay

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


PROPAGANDIST (adjective)
  The adjective PROPAGANDIST has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characterized by propagandaplay

  Familiarity information: PROPAGANDIST used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROPAGANDIST (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)


PROPAGANDIST (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characterized by propaganda

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

propagandist; propagandistic

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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