propaganda
[ˌpɹɒp.əˈɡæn.də]UK/ˌpɹɒpəˈɡændə/
propaganda noun: agitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda. Also the plural of propagandum.
Noun
propaganda (usually uncountable, plural propagandas)
- Agitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda.
- Near-synonym: public diplomacy (sometimes asserted to be synonymous)
- Despite being biased and often untrue, propaganda material can be useful in OSINT analysis.
- Synonyms:
- public diplomacy
- The propagation of the faith by the Catholic Church by means of missionary work etc.
- Such communication specifically when it is biased, misleading, or provoking mainly emotional responses.
- They established a government propaganda commission, called the Creel Commission, which succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population which wanted to destroy everything German, tear the Germans limb from limb, go to war and save the world.2002, Noam Chomsky, “Selections”, in Media Control
- In this metropolis that had a prewar population of almost a million, but where the city center now feels like an Orwellian ghost town of propaganda posters and armed patrols, perhaps no one feels more alone than those who still harbor pro-Ukrainian sentiments.2014 September 25, Anthony Faiola, “An Orwellian nightmare for pro-Ukrainians in rebel-held east”, in The Washington Post, Nash Holdings, LLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2016, retrieved 25...
Also used as
propaganda is also the plural of propagandum.
propaganda meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
propaganda in Hindi
- concerted set of messages
- अधिप्रचार adhipracār, मतप्रचार matapracār, प्रचार pracār, दुष्प्रचार duṣpracār
propaganda in Tamil
- concerted set of messages
- பரப்புரை parappurai
propaganda in Urdu
- concerted set of messages
- پَرْچَار parcār, تَبْلِیغ tablīġ, تَشْہِیر taśhīr, پْروپیگَنْڈا propeganḍā
propaganda in Bengali
- concerted set of messages
- প্রচার procar
More languagesFewer languages
- propaganda in Malayalam
- പ്രചാരണം pracāraṇaṁ
- propaganda in Punjabi
- ਪ੍ਰਾਪੇਗੰਡਾ prāpegaṇḍā
- propaganda in Pashto
- پروپاګند propāgánd, تبليغ tablíǧ, تبليغات tabliǧãt
- propaganda in Tagalog
- paniniwalat, propaganda
- propaganda in Arabic
- دِعَايَة diʕāya, بْرُوبَاغَنْدَا brūbāḡandā, دَعَاوَة daʕāwa
- propaganda in Malay
- propaganda
- propaganda in Indonesian
- propaganda
- propaganda in Thai
- โฆษณาชวนเชื่อ kôot-sà-naa-chuuan-chʉ̂ʉa
- propaganda in Vietnamese
- tuyên truyền
- propaganda in Myanmar
- ဝါဒဖြန့်ခြင်း wada.hpran.hkrang:
Examples of propaganda in a sentence
- Rosie the Riveter is an iconic piece of American WWII propaganda.
- Counterpropaganda that seeks to characterize an opposing propaganda as a false message is a form of metapropaganda.
- I don't buy into all this propaganda.
Synonyms of propaganda
Forms of propaganda
| plural | propagandas |
|---|---|
| alternative form | propagand |
Origin of propaganda
From New Latin prōpāganda, short for Congregātiō dē Prōpāgandā Fidē (“a committee of cardinals established in 1622 by Gregory XV to supervise foreign missions”, literally “congregation for propagating the faith”), and properly the ablative feminine gerundive of Latin prōpāgō (“propagate”). Once the word had been detached from the phrase from which it originated, it could be reinterpreted as a neuter plural gerundive, meaning "things to be propagated"; compare agenda. Modern political sense dates from World War I, not originally pejorative.
Words formed from propaganda
- agitprop
- antipropaganda
- black propaganda
- copaganda
- counterpropaganda
- cyberpropaganda
- homopropaganda
- infoganda
- micropropaganda
- nonpropaganda
- photoganda
- propagand
- propaganda by the deed
- propaganda laundering
- propaganda of the deed
- propaganda-palooza
- propaganded
- propagandee
- propagandic
- propaganding
- propagandism
- propagandist
- propagandistic
- propagandize
- propagandous
- slopaganda
- white propaganda
Words that rhyme with propaganda
Questions about propaganda
- What does propaganda mean?
- Propaganda means agitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda.
- What is propaganda in Hindi?
- Propaganda in Hindi is अधिप्रचार (adhipracār), मतप्रचार (matapracār), प्रचार (pracār). See Propaganda meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is propaganda?
- Propaganda is a noun.
- How do you pronounce propaganda?
- Propaganda is pronounced /ˌpɹɒpəˈɡændə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of propaganda?
- The plural of propaganda is propagandas.
Words near propaganda in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: propaganda (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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