to spread the word
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3.1
- phrasal verb
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difundir
- Everyone is encouraged to spread the word about the upcoming charity event.
- help spread the word
- spread the word to others
- spread the word about the school
Well, thank you for helping me spread the word about brain health.
- Well, thank you for helping me spread the word about brain health.
- So we thank IRIS for their support and for helping us spread the word.
- And how can those people join you and, and, you know, spread the word and follow you.
- Plus, but I also want them to not only buy, but then I also want them to spread the word so other people buy.
- Do subscribe to this channel, spread the word about symptoms and keep logging and stay safe.
- Communicating with all the other people on your team who are going to be helping you spread the word is big.
- So it's really been about appearing and, and trying to enlist local people to help us spread the word.
- Instead, it's to spread the word about fake Damascus pattern that is pretty common in cheap chef's knives.
- You know, I wonder if they because maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like we're all here to kind of spread the word, right?
- Please help me spread the word that butter, that butter not only is not bad for you, it's actually very, very good for you.
- And, and it's, it's, and, and the MOU is, is, is that they are spreading the word to their, to their personnel.
- When you have a one word message that's easy to share, people will share it, they'll feel it, they'll want to spread the word if they believe the same thing as you do.
Examples
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Everyone's invited, so spread the word.
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After initial disbelief, community leaders spread the word to their members and urged them to go into hiding.
Academic text (1998) -
Well, thank you for helping me spread the word about brain health.
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So remember, look for a need, spread the word and build a brand.
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We're gonna spread the word all across this country.
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It's hard to spread the word, but hopefully places like Film Cards can help.
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We figured the best way to spread the word was to hit the streets.
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My father attempted to spread the word among fellow workers during his lunch break.
Fiction book (1996) -
The aim is to encourage people to become advocates and spread the word.
Academic text (2011) -
And Zack continues to spread the word about the dangers of concussions.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
∞
1.5
To tell people officially about something, often in public
252
3.5
Tell people about a product to increase sales
234
4.1
To tell people information that was secret
103
3.9
To spread information or documents among people
94
4.0
Make something known to many people using news or social media
81
3.0
To make news or information known to many people
48
6.8
To spread information or ideas widely so many people know them
47
2.6
Tell many people about something so they know it exists
31
3.2
Tell many people about something so they know
23
5.9
Spread ideas, news, or feelings to many people
21
4.2
To make an idea, activity, or subject known and liked by many people
8
3.7
Make secret information known to the public
4
2.0
Make information spread among many people
3
7.4
Actively promote a product or idea to get people to use it
To tell many people about something so they know it
Antonyms
How Widely Known
- Texting
61
3.8
- Literature
484
2.9
94
4.0
68
3.1
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
220
2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to tell others about something so that it becomes widely known' follows straightforwardly from 'spread' (to disseminate) plus 'word' (a message or piece of news); 'the' is merely a grammatical article. This is a common, compositional verb + noun collocation (cf. 'pass the word') and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrasal verb spread the word comes from the image of spread, like scattering seeds or handing out flyers, and word as the message people should get. That's why it means 'to tell others so it becomes widely known'.