Public(a.) Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury.
Public(a.) Open to the knowledge or view of all; general; common; notorious; as, public report; public scandal.
Public(a.) Open to common or general use; as, a public road; a public house.
Public(n.) The general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; the people, indefinitely; as, the American public; also, a particular body or aggregation of people; as, an author's public.
Public(n.) A public house; an inn.
Publication(n.) The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.
Publication(n.) The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution.
Publication(n.) That which is published or made known; especially, any book, pamphlet, etc., offered for sale or to public notice; as, a daily or monthly publication.
Publication(n.) An act done in public.
Publicity(n.) The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.
Publicly(adv.) With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made.
Publicly(adv.) In the name of the community.
Publicness(n.) The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale.
Publicness(n.) The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property.
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