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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Theadjectiveandnounare derived from LateMiddle Englishpublik,publike(“(adjective) generally observable, public; relating to the general public or public affairs; (noun) a generally observable place or situation”),[1]fromAnglo-Normanpublic,publik,publique,Middle Frenchpublic,publique,andOld Frenchpublic(“(adjective) generally observable, public; relating to the general public; official; (noun) community or its members collectively; nation, state; audience, spectators collectively”)(modernFrenchpublic,publique(obsolete)); and from theiretymonLatinpūblicus(“of or belonging to the community, people, or state; general, public”),an alteration ofpoplicus(influenced bypūbēs(“adult men; male population”)), frompoplus(“community; the people, public; nation, state”)(laterpopulus;fromProto-Italic*poplos(“army”);further origin uncertain, possibly fromEtruscanor fromProto-Indo-European*pleh₁-(“to fill”)) +-icus(suffixmeaning ‘of or pertaining to’).[2]Doubletofpeople.

The Middle English word displaced nativeOld Englishceorlfolcandfolclic.

Theverbis derived from the adjective.[3]

Adjective

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public(comparativemorepublic,superlativemostpublic)

  2. Ableto beknownorseenbyeveryone;happeningwithoutconcealment;opentogeneralview.[from 14th c.]
    • 1591(date written),William Shakespeare,“The First Part of Henry the Sixt”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene vi],page100,column 1:
      VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be apubliqueſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.
    • 1597,Richard Hooker,“S.PaulsWriting is No More Preaching, then His Pen or his Hand is His Toong: Seeing They Cannot be the Same which Cannot be Made by the Same Instruments”, inJ[ohn] S[penser],editor,Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie,[…],2nd edition, London:[…]Will[iam]Stansby[for Matthew Lownes],published1611,→OCLC,book V,page222:
      [T]he Apoſtles preached as vvell vvhen they vvrote as vvhen they ſpake the Goſpell ofChriſt,and our vſuallpubliquereadingof the vvord of God for the peoples inſtructionis preaching.
    • 1620,Ios. Hall [i.e.,Joseph Hall], “[Contemplations vpon the History of the New Testament. The Second Booke.]The Marriage in Cana.”, inContemplations[vpon the Principal Passages of the Holy Story],[…],volume V, London:[…]E[dward]G[riffin]for Henry Fetherstone,→OCLC,page452:
      Thy[Jesus's]firſtpubliquemiracle graceth a marriage; It is an ancient and laudable inſtitution, that the rites of matrimony ſhould not vvant a ſolemne celebration; VVhen are feaſts in ſeaſon, if not at the recouery of our loſt ribbe?
    • 1660,William Lower,transl.,A Relation in Form of Journal, of the Voiage and Residence which the Most Excellent and Most Mighty Prince Charls the II King of Great Britain, &c. hath Made in Holland, from the 25 of May, to the 2 of June, 1660.[…],The Hague:[…]Adrian Vlack,→OCLC,page 4:
      The Parliament alſo permitted General[George]Monckto ſend Mr[Thomas]Clargeshis brother-in-law, accompanied vvith ſome Officers of the Army, to aſſure his Majeſty[Charles II of England]of the fidelity and obedience of the Army; vvhich had madepublickand ſolemn proteſtations thereof, after the Letter and Declaration vvas communicated unto them by the General.
    • 1709May 16 (Gregorian calendar),Isaac Bickerstaff[pseudonym;Richard Steeleet al.], “Thursday, May 5, 1709”, inThe Tatler,number11;republished in [Richard Steele], editor,The Tatler,[…],London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.;[…],1822,→OCLC,page73:
      [O]ur last advices from Spain inform us, that the prince of Asturias had made hispublicentry into Madrid in great splendour.
      The spelling has been modernized.
    • 1843December 19,Charles Dickens,“Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, inA Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas,London:Chapman & Hall,[…],→OCLC,pages58–59:
      Clear away! There was nothing they wouldn't have cleared away, or couldn't have cleared away, with old Fezziwig looking on. It was done in a minute. Every movable was packed off, as if it were dismissed frompubliclife for evermore; the floor was swept and watered, the lamps were trimmed, fuel was heaped upon the fire; and the warehouse was as snug, and warm, and dry, and bright a ball-room, as you would desire to see upon a winter's night.
    • 2011April 18, Sandra Laville, “Paul Stephensonreturns to desk at Metropolitan police”, inAlan Rusbridger,editor,The Guardian‎[1],London:Guardian News & Media,→ISSN,→OCLC,archived fromthe originalon2023-10-25:
      Earlier this month[Tim]Godwinhad to make apublicapology to the family of Daniel Morgan after the collapse of a £30m inquiry into his murder in 1987.
    • 2013June 19,Joris Luyendijk,“Our banks are not merely out of control. They’re beyond control[print version: Our banks are out of control, 28 June 2013]”,inThe Guardian Weekly‎[2],volume189,number 3, London:Guardian News & Media,→ISSN,→OCLC,archived fromthe originalon2024-03-31,page21:
      Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to thepublichumiliation of symbolic figures.
  4. Open to allmembersof acommunity,as opposed toonly asegmentof it; especially,providedbynationalorlocalauthoritiesandsupportedbymoneyfromtaxes.[from 15th c.]
    publiclibrary   publicpark
    • c.1606–1607(date written),William Shakespeare,“The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene ii],page347,column 2:
      I ſavv her once / Hop forty Paces through thepublickeſtreete,[…]
    • 1848,[Elizabeth Gaskell], chapter I, inMary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life.[…](Chapman and Hall’s Series of Original Works of Fiction, Biography, and General Literature), volume I, London:Chapman and Hall,[…],→OCLC,page 1:
      Thereare some fields near Manchester, well known to the inhabitants as "Green Heys Fields," through which runs apublicfootpath to a little village about two miles distant.
    • 1861January, “A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters”, inThe Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics,volume VII, number XXXIX, Boston, Mass.:Ticknor and Fields,[…];London:Trübner and Company,→OCLC,page114,column 1:
      Our late distinguished townsman, Noah Dow, Esquire, as is well known, bequeathed a large portion of his fortune to this establishment,— "being thereto moved," as his will expressed it, "by the desire ofN. DowingsomepublickInstitution for the benefit of Mankind. "
    • 1924July,John Buchan,“The House in Gospel Oak”, inThe Three Hostages,London:Hodder and Stoughton,→OCLC,page85:
      Then it occurred to me that I might be doing a rash thing in going off to an unknown house in a seedy suburb. So I went into apublictelephone-booth, rang up the Club, and told the porter that if Colonel Arbuthnot called, I was at 4 Palmyra Square, N.W.—I made him write down the address—and would be back before ten o'clock.
    • 1975December 13, Gerrie Leary, quotee, “‘State House’ Couple Fail To Get License”, in Marion E[lizabeth]Tholander, editor,Gay Community News,volume 3, number24,Boston, Mass.: GCN, Inc.,→ISSN,→OCLC,page 1,columns2–3:
      The couple had hoped to be married on the actual steps of the State House but State House police made it impossible. Leary claimed that the police had told him that he would be "arrested" if he crossed the street. "They had no right to say that," he said. "The stairway there is apublicstairway. "
    • 2011May 10,David Smith,“South African ‘baby safe’ condemned by child welfare groups”, inAlan Rusbridger,editor,The Guardian‎[3],London:Guardian News & Media,→ISSN,→OCLC,archived fromthe originalon2021-05-16:
      Officials say about 500 babies are abandoned each year in Western Cape province and that the number is increasing. Some are left for dead on rubbish tips, in refuge bags or atpublictoilets.
    • 2013June 7,Jonathan Freedland,“Obamais like Apple, Google and Facebook: A once hip brand tainted by Prism [print version: Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, 14 June 2013]”, inThe Guardian Weekly‎[4],volume189,number 1, London:Guardian News & Media,→ISSN,→OCLC,archived fromthe originalon2024-03-31,page18:
      Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into thepublicether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
    2. (business)Of acompany:havingsharesofstocktradedpublicly,for example, through astock market.
  7. Officiallyrepresentingthe community;carried outorfundedby thegovernmentorstateon behalf of the community, rather than by aprivateorganization.[from 15th c.]
    publichousing   publicofficer   publicprosecutor   publicservant
  8. Pertaining to a person in thecapacityin which theydeal withother people on aformalorofficialbasis,as opposed to apersonalor private capacity; official,professional.
    publicface   publicimage
    • 1709May 14 (Gregorian calendar), Jenny Distaff [pseudonym;Richard Steele], “Tuesday, May 3, 1709”, inThe Tatler,number10;republished in [Richard Steele], editor,The Tatler,[…],London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.;[…],1822,→OCLC,page60:
      The first that I lay my hands on, is a treatise concerning 'the empire of beauty,' and the effects it has had in all nations of the world, upon thepublicand private actions of men;[…]
      The spelling has been modernized.
    • 1814May 9,[Jane Austen], chapter III, inMansfield Park:[…],volume III, London:[…][George Sidney]forT[homas]Egerton,[…],→OCLC,page67:
      The preacher[…]who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in hispubliccapacity) honour enough.
  10. (not comparable,by extension,object-oriented programming)Of anobject:accessibleto theprogramin general,not only to aclassorsubclass.
  11. (archaic)
    1. Pertaining tonationscollectively,or to nationsregardedascivilized;international,supernational.
      • 1549February 10 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as1548),Erasmus,“The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon theGospell of Sainct John.The.vij. Chapter.”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e.,Nicholas Udall], transl.,The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente,London:[…]Edwarde Whitchurche,→OCLC,folio lviii, recto:
        […]Nicodemushad not affirmed him[Jesus]to be a prophete, but ſayde: whoſoeuer he be, he ought not after our common, or ratherpublikelaw, (that is to ſaye, a lawe which indifferently perteyneth to all men of euery ſtate) to be condemned, except his cauſe be knowen before.
      • 1665,Robert Boyle,“Occasional Reflections. Discourse XVII. Upon Ones Talking to an Eccho.”, in [John Weyland], editor,Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects. With a Discourse about Such Kind of Thoughts,Oxford, Oxfordshire: Alex[ander]Ambrose Masson; and sold byJohn Henry Parker,[…],published1848,→OCLC,section IV (Which Treats of Angling Improv’d to Spiritual Uses),page274:
        [S]uch a one concerns himself very needlessly for almost all thepubliqueQuarrels in Christendome, and shews himself zealous for a party which will receive no advantage by his disquiets;[…]
    2. Now chiefly inpublic spiritandpublic-spirited:seekingtofurtherthebestinterestsorwell-beingof the community or nation.
      • 1652,Alexander Giraffi[i.e.,Alessandro Giraffi],“The Second Tumults Happened in the City of Naples, Held to be Hotter and Higher than the Former, which Succeeded the 7. of July”, inJames Howell,transl.,An Exact History of the Late Revolutions in Naples;[…],revised edition, London:[…]R[ichard]Lowndes[…],published1663,→OCLC,part II (The Second Part ofMassaniello,[…]),page43:
        [T]he ſaid[Joseph]Palumbovvas reſtrain'd to SaintLorenzo;but being a popular man, and one knovvn to be a good Patriot, and of apublickſoul, and a perſon of integrity; there vvere four thouſand of the beſt armed men joyn'd together, to vindicate and free the ſaidPalumbo,[…]
      • 1664January (first performance),Robert Howard;[John Dryden], “The Indian Queen, a Tragedy”,inFour New Plays,[…],London:[…]Henry Herringman,[…],published1665,→OCLC,Act IV, scene i,page161:
        Suppoſe I ſhou'd ſtrike firſt, vvou'd it not breed / Grief in yourpublickheart to ſee her bleed?
      • a.1749(date written),James Thomson,“Winter”, inThe Seasons,London:[…]A[ndrew]Millar,and sold byThomas Cadell,[…],published1768,→OCLC,pages185–186,lines593–597:
        As thus vve talk'd, / Our hearts vvould burn vvithin us, vvould inhale / That portion of divinity, that ray / Of pureſt heaven, vvhich lights thepublicſoul / Of patriots, and of heroes.
      • 1850,R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson,“Napoleon;or, The Man of the World”, inRepresentative Men: Seven Lectures,Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company,[…],→OCLC,pages228–229:
        Napoleon had been the first man of the world, if his ends had been purelypublic.
    3. Now only inpublic figure:famous,prominent,well-known.
  12. (UK,education,chieflyhistorical)In someolderuniversitiesin theUnited Kingdom:open or pertaining to the whole university, as opposed to aconstituentcollegeor anindividualstaffmember orstudent.
  13. (obsolete)
    1. Of or pertaining to thehuman raceas a whole;common,universal.
      • 1697,Virgil,“The First Book of theGeorgics”,inJohn Dryden,transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…],London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC,page68,lines639–640:
        In Iron Clouds conceal'd thePublickLight: / And Impious Mortals fear'd Eternal Night.
      • 1858January 17 (date written),Nathaniel Hawthorne,“The Mediterranean Sea”, inPassages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne,volume I, London:Strahan & Co.,[…],published1871,→OCLC,page54:
        In the squares and places you see half-a-dozen of them together, sitting in a social circle on the bottoms of upturned baskets, knitting, talking, and enjoying thepublicsunshine, as if it were their own household fire.
    2. Chiefly inmakepublic:of awork:printedor otherwisepublished.
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pertaining to a person in the capacity in which they deal with other people on a formal or official basis—seeofficial,‎professional
pertaining to nations collectively, or to nations regarded as civilized—seeinternational,‎supernational
famous, prominent, well-known—seefamous,‎prominent,‎well-known
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Noun

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public(countableanduncountable,pluralpublics)

  1. (countable,uncountable)Chiefly preceded bythe:membersof thecommunityor thepeoplein general,regardless ofmembershipof anyparticulargroup.
    Members of thepublicmay not proceed beyond this point.
  2. (countable)
    1. Preceded by apossessive determinersuch asmy,your,ortheir:a group of people whosupporta particular person, especially aperformer,awriter,etc.; anaudience,afollowing.
      Hyponyms:readership,viewership
      • 1823,[Walter Scott], “Introduction”, inQuentin Durward.[…],volume I, Edinburgh:[…][James Ballantyne and Co.] forArchibald Constable and Co.;London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co.,→OCLC,page xiii:
        By dint of drinking acid tiff, as above mentioned, and smoking segars, in which I am no novice, myPublicare to be informed, that I gradually drank and smoked myself into a certain degree of acquaintance withun homme comme il faut[a decent man],one of the few fine old specimens of nobility who are still to be found in France;[…]
    2. (informal)Short forpublic house(“aninn,apub”);also(dated),in fullpublic bar:the morebasicbarin a public house, ascontrastedwith theloungebar orsaloonbar which has morecomfortableseats,personalizedservice,etc.
      Synonyms:seeThesaurus:pub
    3. (oftenpublic relations)Often preceded bytheand aqualifyingword:a particulardemographicor group of people, orsegmentof thepopulation,sharingsomecommoncharacteristic.
      the cinema-goingpublic    the readingpublic
      • 1817,S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge,“Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads, and the objects originally proposed—Preface to the second edition—The ensuing controversy, its causes and acrimony—Philosophic definitions of a poem and poetry with scholia”, inBiographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions,volume II, London: Rest Fenner,[…],→OCLC,page 4:
        But year after year increased the number of Mr.[William]Wordsworth's admirers. They were found too not in the lower classes of the readingpublic,but chiefly among young men of strong sensibility and meditative minds; and their admiration (inflamed perhaps in some degree by opposition) was distinguished by its intensity, I might almost say, by itsreligiousfervour.
      • 1843December? (date written; published1843January),John Ruskin,“Art Criticism”, in[Alexander D. O. Wedderburn],editor,Arrows of the Chace: Being a Collection of Scattered Letters Published Chiefly in the Daily Newspapers,—1840–1880[…],volume I (Letters on Art and Science), Orpington, Kent[London]:George Allen,[…],published1880,→OCLC,part I (Art Criticism and Art Education),page21:
        People continually forget that there is aseparatepublicfor every picture, and for every book. Appealed to with reference to any particular work, thepublicis that class of persons who possess the knowledge which it presupposes, and the faculties to which it is addressed. With reference to a new edition of[Isaac]Newton'sPrincipia,the "public"means little more than the Royal Society. With reference to one of[William]Wordsworth's poems, it means all who have hearts.
      • 2005,Donald Treadwell, Jill B. Treadwell, “Theoretical Influences on Public Relations Writing”, inPublic Relations Writing: Principles in Practice,2nd edition, Thousand Oaks, Calif.; London:Sage Publications,→ISBN,page19:
        Generally, you as a public relations writer have multiplepublicsstarting with your employer and your employer'spublics(of course). To the extent that you will use them to reach many otherpublics,the news media will also be one of yourpublics.
      1. (sociology)A group of people sharing some commoncultural,political,orsocialinterest,but notnecessarilyhaving anyinteractionswith each other.
    4. (obsolete)
      1. Chiefly preceded bythe:acollectivebodyof apoliticallyorganizednationorstate;abody politic,a nation, a state; also, the interest orwell-beingof such a collective body; thecommon good.
        (well-being):Synonyms:(archaic or obsolete)commonweal,public interest,public good
      2. (US,universityslang)AtHarvard University:apenaltyimposedon astudentinvolvingagradereductionwhich iscommunicatedto the student'sparentsorguardian.
  3. (uncountable)Chiefly inin public:thepresenceofspectatorsor peoplegenerally;theopen.
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group of people who support a particular person—seeaudience,‎following
short forpublic house—seepub

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public(third-person singular simple presentpublics,present participlepublicing,simple past and past participlepubliced)

  1. (transitive,originallyScotland,archaic)Tomake(something)openlyorwidelyknown;topublicize,topublish.
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to make (something) openly or widely known—seepublicise,‎publish

Etymology 2

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Semantic loanfromRussianпа́блик(páblik)andUkrainianпа́блик(páblyk),па́блік(páblik,“public webpage on a blog or on social media”),both borrowed fromEnglishpublic:seeetymology 1.

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public(pluralpublics)

  1. (non-native speakers’ English,neologism)Aninternetpublication.
    • 2023January 7, Alexander Grigoryev, “Russian public: PMC" Wagner "fighters report that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are using unidentified chemical weapons in Artemovsk”, inMilitary Review‎[9]:
      Russianpublicsreport that the fighters of the Wagner group have already practically taken possession of Soledar, there are fights on the outskirts, where the Vushniks are trying to fight back in the salt mines.
    • 2023December, Iryna Rudia, Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė, Olena Gogorenko,Public Security and Public Order‎[10],number34,Kaunas:Mykolas Romeris University,→DOI,pages219 of 218–225:
      Complex inductions are unconscious powerful components of influence. They include the following varieties:
      […] 4) Truisms. The term comes from the English word "true", which means "truth". Therefore, under truism it is accepted to understand banal truths, i.e. something that in principle does not require confirmation, but it is so banal and common knowledge that it is rather strange to base on it, but here again there is a "but". In our subconsciousness we perceive it as a certain axiom, and this axiom is interpreted by our subconsciousness itself. As an example, the phrase "In matters of war, Russia is Russia, and Ukraine is Ukraine" was repeatedly encountered in Russianpublics.In principle, there is no sense in this phrase, because not a single fact is given. However, each of the readers interpreted it for himself, and putting the word "Russia" in the foreground makes a hint that Russia is stronger than Ukraine in military terms, but the phrase itself does not express such a meaning extra-linguistically.

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  1. ^“pū̆blik(e,adj.”,inMED Online,Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.
  2. ^“public,adj.andn.”,inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠,Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,June 2024;“public,adj.andn.”,inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
  3. ^“public,v.”,inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠,Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,July 2023.

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French

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromLatinpūblicus.The noun is from the adjective.

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public(femininepublique,masculine pluralpublics,feminine pluralpubliques)

  1. public(various meanings)
    1. (relational)of thepeopleas awhole;public[from 1238]
      l’intérêtpublic―thepublicinterest
      le bienpublic―thepublicgood
      La voixpubliqueest pour lui.―Thepublicvoice is for him.
    2. public;seen or known by everyone[from 1330]
      C’est une nouvelle qui est déjàpublique.―It's alreadypublicnews.
    3. public;representing thestateon behalf of the community[from 1390]
      Synonym:étatique
      pouvoirspublics―publicpowers
      notairepublic―publicnotary
    4. public;open to all[from 1538]
      Synonym:commun
      lieupublic―publicplace
      fillepublique―streetwalker,prostitute(literally, “publicgirl”)

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publicm(pluralpublics)

  1. public(people in general)[from 1320]
    • 2015October 3, Romain Gueugneau, “Le smartphone tout terrain s’aventure dans le grand public”, inLesEchos‎[11]:
      Et la demande augmente dans le grandpublic.
      And the demand is increasing amongst the generalpublic.
  2. audience[from 1671]
    Il devait plaire à sonpublic.―He had to please hisaudience.
    • 2016,Claudine Monfette, Robert Charlebois, Pierre Nadeau (lyrics and music), “Ordinaire”, inEncore un soir‎[12],performed byCéline Dion:
      Quand je chante, c’est pour lepublic
      When I sing, it's for theaudience

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publicmpl

  1. pluralofpublich

Occitan

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Etymology

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FromLatinpublicus.

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publicm(feminine singularpublica,masculine pluralpublics,feminine pluralpublicas)

  1. public
    Antonym:privat

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publicm(pluralpublics)

  1. public,audience

Old French

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publicm(oblique and nominative feminine singularpublique)

  1. public(not private; available to the general populace)

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Romanian

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Etymology

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BorrowedfromFrenchpublic,fromLatinpublicus.

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publicmorn(feminine singularpublică,masculine pluralpublici,feminine and neuter pluralpublice)

  1. public

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Declension ofpublic
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite public publică publici publice
definite publicul publica publicii publicele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite public publice publici publice
definite publicului publicei publicilor publicelor

Noun

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publicn(pluralpublice)

  1. thepublic
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