propaganda

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Agitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda.

   Near-synonym: public diplomacy (sometimes asserted to be synonymous)

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause

4. 4
   noun

   plural of propagandum

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- Latin prōpāgō Latin prōpāgandus New Latin prōpāgandader. English 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”)…