"spread the word" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spreads the word",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spreading the word",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spread the word",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spread the word",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "spread<,,spread> the word"
      },
      "expansion": "spread the word (third-person singular simple present spreads the word, present participle spreading the word, simple past and past participle spread the word)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Oded Maimon, Lior Rokach, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook, Springer Science & Business Media, page 424",
          "text": "A famous example of viral marketing is the rapid spread of Hotmail as a free email service. Attached to each email was a short advertisement and Hotmail's URL, and customers spread the word about Hotmail simply by emailing their family and friends.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To tell a lot of people; to inform as many people as one can."
      ],
      "id": "en-spread_the_word-en-verb-Yzs4CQVJ",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To tell a lot of people; to inform as many people as one can."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "tell a lot of people",
          "word": "levittää sanaa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "tell a lot of people",
          "word": "passer le mot"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "tell a lot of people",
          "word": "weitersagen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "tell a lot of people",
          "word": "weiterverbreiten"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spread the word"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spreads the word",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spreading the word",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spread the word",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spread the word",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "spread<,,spread> the word"
      },
      "expansion": "spread the word (third-person singular simple present spreads the word, present participle spreading the word, simple past and past participle spread the word)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Oded Maimon, Lior Rokach, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook, Springer Science & Business Media, page 424",
          "text": "A famous example of viral marketing is the rapid spread of Hotmail as a free email service. Attached to each email was a short advertisement and Hotmail's URL, and customers spread the word about Hotmail simply by emailing their family and friends.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To tell a lot of people; to inform as many people as one can."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To tell a lot of people; to inform as many people as one can."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "tell a lot of people",
      "word": "levittää sanaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "tell a lot of people",
      "word": "passer le mot"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "tell a lot of people",
      "word": "weitersagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "tell a lot of people",
      "word": "weiterverbreiten"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spread the word"
}