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publicly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial publicly has 2 senses
- publicly(r = adv.all) in public, publically - in a manner accessible to or observable by the public; openly; "she admitted publicly to being a communist" Antonym: privately
- publicly(r = adv.all) Array - by the public or the people generally; "publicly provided medical care"; "publicly financed schools" Antonym: privately
CIDE DICTIONARY
publicly, adv.
- With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. [1913 Webster]
- In the name of the community. Addison. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
publicly
Publication
N publication, public announcement, promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento, circulation, indiction, edition, hue and cry, publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype, vox populi, report, the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily, telegraphy, publisher, imprint, circular, circular letter, manifesto, advertisement, ad, placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster, notice, published, current, in circulation, public, notorious, flagrant, arrant, open, trumpet-tongued, encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory, exoteric, publicly, in open court, with open doors, Int, Oyez!, O yes!, notice!, notice is hereby given, this is to give, these are to give notice, nomina stultorum parietibus haerent, semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.
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