How to pronounce “public”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Able to be known or seen by everyone; happening without concealment; open to general view. [from 14th c.]
• Open to all members of a community, as opposed to only a segment of it; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes. [from 15th c.]
• Pertaining to the people as a whole, as opposed to a group of people; concerning the whole community or country. [from 15th c.]
• Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the government or state on behalf of the community, rather than by a private organization. [from 15th c.]
• Pertaining to a person in the capacity in which they deal with other people on a formal or official basis, as opposed to a personal or private capacity; official, professional.
• (not comparable, by extension, object-oriented programming) Of an object: accessible to the program in general, not only to a class or subclass.
• (archaic)
• (UK, education, chiefly historical) In some older universities in the United Kingdom: open or pertaining to the whole university, as opposed to a constituent college or an individual staff member or student.
• (obsolete)
• [Noun]
• (countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by the: members of the community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
• (countable)
• (uncountable) Chiefly in in public: the presence of spectators or people generally; the open.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, originally Scotland, archaic) To make (something) openly or widely known; to publicize, to publish.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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