Usually means: Accessible to the general community.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word public:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. public, the public: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. public: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. public: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. public: Collins English Dictionary
  5. public: Vocabulary.com
  6. public, public, public, public: Wordnik
  7. public, the public: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. public: Wiktionary
  9. public: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. public: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. public: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. public, the public: Dictionary.com
  13. public (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. public: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Public (album), Public, The Public (film), The Public (newspaper), The Public (opera), The Public (play), The Public, The public: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Public: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. public: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. public: Rhymezone
  19. public, public (publique): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. public: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Public: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. public: Free Dictionary
  23. public: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. public: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. public: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. public: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Public: Investopedia
  9. public: Legal dictionary
  10. Public, The Public: Financial dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Public: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Data Formats and Their Sugggested File Extensions (No longer online)
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. public: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PUBLIC: Acronym Finder
  2. public: Idioms
  3. public: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. public: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. public: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See publicing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Able to be known or seen by everyone; happening without concealment; open to general view.
adjective:  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.
adjective:  (business) Of a company: having shares of stock traded publicly, for example, through a stock market.
adjective:  Pertaining to the people as a whole, as opposed to a group of people; concerning the whole community or country.
adjective:  Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the government or state on behalf of the community, rather than by a private organization.
adjective:  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.
adjective:  (not comparable, by extension, object-oriented programming) Of an object: accessible to the program in general, not only to a class or subclass.
adjective:  (archaic)
adjective:  Pertaining to nations collectively, or to nations regarded as civilized; international, supernational.
adjective:  Now chiefly in public spirit and public-spirited: seeking to further the best interests or well-being of the community or nation.
adjective:  Now only in public figure: famous, prominent, well-known.
adjective:  (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.
adjective:  (obsolete)
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the human race as a whole; common, universal.
adjective:  Chiefly in make public: of a work: printed or otherwise published.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by the: members of the community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
noun:  (countable)
noun:  Preceded by a possessive determiner such as my, your, or their: a group of people who support a particular person, especially a performer, a writer, etc.; an audience, a following.
noun:  (often public relations) Often preceded by the and a qualifying word: a particular demographic or group of people, or segment of the population, sharing some common characteristic.
noun:  (sociology) A group of people sharing some common cultural, political, or social interest, but not necessarily having any interactions with each other.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  Chiefly preceded by the: a collective body of a politically organized nation or state; a body politic, a nation, a state; also, the interest or well-being of such a collective body; the common good.
noun:  (US, university slang) At Harvard University: a penalty imposed on a student involving a grade reduction which is communicated to the student's parents or guardian.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (non-native speakers' English, neologism) An internet publication.
noun:  (informal) Short for public house (“an inn, a pub”); also (dated), in full public bar: the more basic bar in a public house, as contrasted with the lounge bar or saloon bar which has more comfortable seats, personalized service, etc. [(UK, formal) A pub; a British bar or tavern, often selling food and sometimes lodging; an inn.]

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