public - Simple English Wiktionary (original) (raw)

public is on the Basic English 850 List.

• IPA (key): /ˈpʰʌblɪk/
• SAMPA: /"p_hVblIk/
• Hyphenation: pub‧lic

1. Something is public if it is about or for all the people.
   You can't tell me to go away. This is a public place.

• publication
• publicize/publicise

1. (uncountable) All of the people in a big place like a country.
   I'm going to write this in the newspaper because the public needs to know it.
   Getting Western publics to understand the nature of the war is hard enough.
   The dress rehearsal was opened to the general public as well as celebrities.