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- [puhb-lik]
- /ˈpʌb lɪk/
- /ˈpʌblɪk/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [puhb-lik]
- /ˈpʌb lɪk/
Definitions of public word
- adjective public of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance. 1
- adjective public done, made, acting, etc., for the community as a whole: public prosecution. 1
- adjective public open to all persons: a public meeting. 1
- adjective public of, relating to, or being in the service of a community or nation, especially as a government officer: a public official. 1
- adjective public maintained at the public expense and under public control: a public library; a public road. 1
- adjective public generally known: The fact became public. 1
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Origin of public
First appearance:
before 1400 One of the 24% oldest English words
1400-50; < Latin pūblicus (earlier pōblicus, pōplicus, akin to populus people); replacing late Middle English publique < Middle French < Latin, as above
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Parts of speech for Public
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
public popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
public usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for public
adj public
- across the board — If a policy or a situation applies across the board, it affects everything or everyone in a particular group.
- all over the place — If something is happening all over the place, it is happening in many different places.
- as one — If a group of people does something as one, all the people do the same thing at the same time or in the same way.
- be had — To be deceived.
- burghal — (in Scotland) an incorporated town having its own charter and some degree of political independence from the surrounding area.
noun public
- anybody — Anybody means the same as anyone.
- anyone — You use anyone or anybody in statements with negative meaning to indicate in a general way that nobody is present or involved in an action.
- audience — The audience at a play, concert, film, or public meeting is the group of people watching or listening to it.
- bourgeoisie — In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.
- churchgoer — A churchgoer is a person who goes to church regularly.
verb public
- attendance — Someone's attendance at an event or an institution is the fact that they are present at the event or go regularly to the institution.
- gated — (of patterns in a foundry mold) linked by gates.
- gating — a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
- housed — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
adjective public
- getatable — Capable of being got at; accessible.
- government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- grassroots — the common or ordinary people, especially as contrasted with the leadership or elite of a political party, social organization, etc.; the rank and file.
- grouper — any of various sea basses of the family Serranidae, especially of the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, of tropical and subtropical seas.
- intermutual — (obsolete) mutual.
Antonyms for public
adj public
- advantaged — A person or place that is advantaged is in a better social or financial position than other people or places.
- alchemistic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- astrological — the study that assumes and attempts to interpret the influence of the heavenly bodies on human affairs.
- autogenous — originating within the body
- avantgarde — the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.
adjective public
- acroamatic — relating to oral communication
- backroom — A backroom is a room that is situated at the back of a building, especially a private room.
- characteristic — The characteristics of a person or thing are the qualities or features that belong to them and make them recognizable.
- domestic — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- endogenous — Having an internal cause or origin.
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