PUBLICIZE
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)
Meaning:
Make public
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
publicize; bare; publicise; air
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"):
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
Meaning:
Call attention to
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
advertise; publicise; advertize; 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
