PUBLICIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does publicize mean? 

• PUBLICIZE (verb)
  The verb PUBLICIZE has 2 senses:

1. make public

2. call attention to

  Familiarity information: PUBLICIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLICIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they publicize    ... he / she / it publicizes   
Past simple: publicized   
Past participle: publicized   
-ing form: publicizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make public

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

air; bare; publicise; publicize

Context example:

She aired her opinions on welfare

Hypernyms (to "publicize" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "publicize"):

hype (publicize in an exaggerated and often misleading manner)

bulletin (make public by bulletin)

bring out; issue; publish; put out; release (prepare and issue for public distribution or sale)

broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread (cause to become widely known)

air; beam; broadcast; send; transmit (broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

publicizer (someone who publicizes)

publicizing (the business of drawing public attention to goods and services)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Call attention to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

advertise; advertize; publicise; publicize

Context example:

Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS

Hypernyms (to "publicize" is one way to...):

announce; denote (make known; make an announcement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "publicize"):

headline (publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline)

ballyhoo (advertize noisily or blatantly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

publicist; publicizer (someone who publicizes)

publicizing (the business of drawing public attention to goods and services)