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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"

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

... to speak to you on the subject, Madame, especially in public; but since you anticipate my desire, I admit I am waiting with deep anxiety for one word from you which will decide ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... follower and sycophant and a literary debauchee. Milton was publicist. Burns, loving and longing for courts and society, was enforced in his seclusion, and therefore angry at it. Wordsworth dwelt apart from men, as one who lives far from a public thoroughfare, where neither the dust nor bustle of travel can touch his bower of quiet; in its quality of isolation, Grasmere was an island in remote seas. Keats was a lad, dreaming in some dim Greek temple, listening to a fountain's plash at midnight ...

— A Hero and Some Other Folks • William A. Quayle

... to be made more onerous, and the great host of creditors who did not desire that their debtors should be embarrassed and possibly rendered unable to liquidate, united on the practical side of the question and aroused public opinion against the course of the Treasury Department. An individual, by an effort of will, can bring himself to endure present inconvenience and even suffering, for a great good that lies beyond, but it was difficult for forty millions of ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... apprehensions were for the future. The present must be a time of action. If only to-night's coup de main should come off successfully, he might cross the Atlantic with his prey, and remain in safe seclusion till the outrage had been so far forgotten by the public that those at home whom it most affected would be unwilling to rekindle the embers of a scandal half-smothered and dying out. Tom Ryfe was not without ready money. He calculated he could live for at least a year in some foreign clime, far beyond the ...

— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville

... from duty, admitted that, "by an incredible misfortune," the young Mohammed had been enticed away from him. He feared, Hassan ben Saad added, to make a disturbance, as an influential friend—Captain Sabine—advised him to inform the marabout of what had happened before taking public action which the child's father ...

— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

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