public (n.)
- adherent
- affirmed
- alehouse
- apparent
- appendage
- attendant
- audience
- bar
- barroom
- bistro
- boardinghouse
- bourgeois
- bourgeoisie
- broadcast
- buff
- business
- cabaret
- cafe
- catholic
- citizenry
- clear
- clientage
- clientele
- collective
- common
- commonalty
- commonplace
- commonwealth
- community
- constituency
- cooperative
- cosmopolitan
- courtier
- current
- custom
- dependent
- disciple
- dive
- dorm
- dormitory
- estate
- everyman
- exterior
- external
- familiar
- fan
- fleabag
- flophouse
- flunky
- folk
- folks
- follower
- followers
- following
- free
- fringe
- general
- gentry
- government
- habitancy
- hanger-on
- henchman
- homespun
- honky-tonk
- hospice
- hostel
- hostelry
- hotel
- household
- inn
- international
- joint
- known
- local
- manifest
- market
- masses
- men
- multitude
- nation
- national
- nationality
- nightclub
- notable
- open
- ordinary
- out
- outer
- outside
- overt
- parasite
- partisan
- patent
- patronage
- pension
- people
- peripheral
- persons
- plain
- plebeian
- polity
- pop
- populace
- population
- portion
- pothouse
- proletariat
- pub
- pursuer
- rathskeller
- reciprocal
- roadhouse
- roundabout
- saloon
- satellite
- sectary
- sector
- segment
- shadow
- social
- society
- speakeasy
- spread
- state
- stooge
- successor
- suite
- supporter
- surface
- tail
- taproom
- tavern
- telecast
- trade
- trainbearer
- trite
- universal
- urban
- vernacular
- votary
- world
public (adv.)
public (adj.)
- accessible
- acknowledged
- adherent
- announced
- apparent
- attendant
- available
- bar
- blatant
- bourgeois
- buff
- campy
- catholic
- celebrated
- civic
- civil
- clear
- clear-cut
- collective
- collectivistic
- common
- commonplace
- communal
- communistic
- conjoint
- conjunct
- conspicuous
- cooperative
- cortical
- cosmopolitan
- current
- custom
- declared
- dependent
- diffused
- disreputable
- distributed
- dive
- eminent
- epidermic
- estate
- exposed
- exterior
- external
- extrinsic
- familiar
- famous
- flagrant
- following
- free
- general
- governmental
- hackneyed
- homely
- homespun
- illustrious
- infamous
- influential
- international
- joint
- kitschy
- known
- local
- manifest
- market
- men
- municipal
- mutual
- nation
- national
- notable
- noted
- notorious
- obvious
- open
- ordinary
- out
- outer
- outermost
- outlying
- outmost
- outside
- outstanding
- outward
- overt
- partisan
- patent
- peripheral
- plain
- platitudinous
- plebeian
- pop
- popular
- proclaimed
- projected
- prominent
- proverbial
- published
- reciprocal
- renowned
- reported
- roundabout
- satellite
- seeming
- shared
- social
- socialistic
- societal
- spread
- state
- stated
- superficial
- supranational
- surface
- tail
- trite
- truistic
- unconcealed
- universal
- unrestricted
- urban
- vernacular
- viewable
- visible
- well-known
- widespread
- world
- worldwide
I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been
To public feasts, where meet a public rout,—
Where they that are without would fain go in,
And they that are within would fain go out.
Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires,
And unawares Morality expires.
Nor public flame nor private dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
Lo! thy dread empire Chaos is restor'd,
Light dies before thy uncreating word;
Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall,
And universal darkness buries all.
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
Private credit is wealth; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.
Letters of Junius. Letter xlii. Affair of the Falkland Islands.
Abstain from beans; that is, keep out of public offices, for anciently the choice of the officers of state was made by beans.
From this comes the phrase, "Cohesive power of public plunder."
Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been
To public feasts, where meet a public rout,—
Where they that are without would fain go in,
And they that are within would fain go out.
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
You 'd scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage;
And if I chance to fall below
Demosthenes or Cicero,
Don't view me with a critic's eye,
But pass my imperfections by.
Large streams from little fountains flow,
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.
