Public
Related: public domain - public enemy - public sphere - audience - people
Contrast: private
Pollice Verso (1872) - Jean-Léon Gérôme
Definition
Public is 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 is too 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
--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public [Jul 2004]
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