promote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈmoʊt/
ipa: /pɹəˈməʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: promotes
form: promoting
form: promoted
form: promoted
Etymology: From Latin prōmōtus, perfect passive participle of prōmoveō (“move forward, advance”).
Senses: examples: text: He promoted his clerk to office manager.
antonyms: demote
relegate
glosses: To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
examples: text: They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
text: They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
antonyms: word: denigrate
word: oppose
word: praise
word: stand up for
glosses: To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
examples: text: so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: It appears that Le Guin is promoting a sort of self-critique on her own ideology. Interestingly, although the story does give such an impression, the problematic characteristics of the Anarresti society are far more severe than economic scarcities or isolation.
ref: 2019 May 21, Israel Alves Corrêa Noletto, Sebastião Alves Teixeira Lopes, “Language and ideology: glossopoesis as a secondary narrative framework in Le Guin’s The dispossessed”, in Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, volume 41, number 2, →DOI:
synonyms: word: motivate
word: provoke
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
word: encourage
word: foster
word: feed
word: grow
word: nurture
word: promote
word: raise
glosses: To encourage, urge or incite.
examples: text: At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To elevate to a higher league.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
examples: text: Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
examples: text: At the end of Primary 6 students can promote directly to the secondary section of SIS.
glosses: To move on to a subsequent stage of education.
Derived terms: co-promote
copromote
cross-promote
depromote
mispromote
overpromote
promotability
promotable
promoteability
promotee
promotement
promoter
promote to customer
promote to Glory
promotive
promotor
repromote
self-promote
underpromote