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Public

adjective

Not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole. "Public libraries" , "Public funds" , "Public parks" , "A public scandal" , "Public gardens" , "Performers and members of royal families are public figures" Antonym: private.

Affecting the people or community as a whole. "Community interests" , "The public welfare"

noun

People in general considered as a whole. Synonyms: populace, world.

A body of people sharing some common interest.

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"Public" Quotes from Famous Books

... cried, "Since all who in the Olympian bower reside Now make the wandering Greek their public care, Let Hermes to the Atlantic isle repair; Bid him, arrived in bright Calypso's court, The sanction of the assembled powers report: That wise Ulysses to his native land Must speed, obedient to their high command. Meantime Telemachus, the blooming heir Of sea-girt ...

— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer, translated by Alexander Pope

... distance, it perceptibly came from a closely contiguous wall. This occasioned its terrors to be received derisively. The Queen of Denmark, a very buxom lady, though no doubt historically brazen, was considered by the public to have too much brass about her; her chin being attached to her diadem by a broad band of that metal (as if she had a gorgeous toothache), her waist being encircled by another, and each of her arms by another, so that ...

— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens

... that the nobleman had been assisted in effecting the abduction by a young foreigner residing in Rome, and that the brother of the unfortunate girl had been killed in attempting to rescue her. That completed all the intelligence ever vouchsafed to the public in regard to the mysterious affair, and thereafter the journal maintained an unbroken silence respecting the matter. The rumor ran that its proprietors had been bribed by interested parties to say nothing further, but this rumor ...

— Monte-Cristo's Daughter • Edmund Flagg

... 'Public-house woman. The clumsiness of the Smith family! You MIGHT say the landlady of the Falcon Hotel, since we are in for politeness. The people are ridiculous enough, but ...

— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy

... one or two domestics, regulated the affairs of his household. When he tired of Shakspeare and solitude, he was ever a welcome guest at his son-in-law's, where he went the more frequently that Markham had given up all concern in public affairs, disapproving of the forcible dismissal of the Parliament, and submitting to Cromwell's subsequent domination, rather as that which was the lesser evil, than as to a government which he regarded as legal. Cromwell seemed ever willing ...

— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott

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