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English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p?b/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /p?b/
• Rhymes: -?b, -?b

Etymology 1

Clipping of public house

Noun

pub (plural pubs)

1. A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pub

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pub (third-person singular simple present pubs, present participle pubbing, simple past and past participle pubbed)

1. (informal, intransitive) To go to one or more public houses.

See also

• inn
• off-licence
• tavern

Etymology 2

Clipping of public server

Noun

pub (plural pubs)

1. (video games, slang) A public server.
   • 2002, "Sean C. Cunningham", if you play on random public servers, you're an ^[sic] tool and have no right to complain about cheaters. (on newsgroup alt.games.half-life.counterstrike)

     Well there's private servers and then there's pubs that do their best to make sure everyone plays fair. The second option will be a lot easier to find.

Etymology 3

Clipping of publication.

Noun

pub (plural pubs)

1. Clipping of publication.

   registered pubs

Etymology 4

Clipping of publish.

Verb

pub (third-person singular simple present pubs, present participle pubbing, simple past and past participle pubbed)

1. (informal, transitive) to publish

Anagrams

• UPB

Finnish

Alternative forms

• pubi

Noun

pub

1. pub

Declension

French

Etymology 1

Clipping of publicité.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pyb/

Noun

pub f (plural pubs)

1. Television ad or advert.

Derived terms

• pause pub
• pubard

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pub.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /pœb/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /p?b/

Noun

pub m (plural pubs)

1. pub

Derived terms

• resto pub

Further reading

• “pub” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English pub.

Noun

pub m (invariable)

1. pub

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From British English pub (“public house”)

Noun

pub m (definite singular puben, indefinite plural puber, definite plural pubene)

1. a pub

Related terms

• bar

References

• “pub” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From British English pub (“public house”)

Noun

pub m (definite singular puben, indefinite plural pubar, definite plural pubane)

1. a pub

Related terms

• bar

References

• “pub” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English pub.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pap/

Noun

pub m inan

1. pub (public house)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) pubowy

Further reading

• pub in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• pub in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Austrian German Bub, Bube.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pû?b/ or IPA^(key): /pûb/

Noun

p?b or p?b m (Cyrillic spelling ???? or ????) (regional)

1. jack, knave in card games

Declension

Coordinate terms

References

• “pub” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “pub”, in ?????? ???????????????? ????????? ?????? (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 5, ????? ?????????? ?????? edition, ???? ???, ??????: ?????? ??????, ?????? ????????, 1973, published 1990, page 282

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pub.

Noun

pub m (plural pubs)

1. pub

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pub.

Noun

pub c

1. pub

Declension

Anagrams

• BUP, PBU

English

Alternative forms

• publick, publicke, publike, publique (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman publik, public, Middle French public, publique et al., and their source, Latin p?blicus (“pertaining to the people”). Compare people.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?bl?k/
• Hyphenation: pub?lic

Adjective

public (comparative more public, superlative most public)

1. Able to be seen or known by everyone; open to general view, happening without concealment. [from 14th c.]
2. Pertaining to the people as a whole (as opposed to a private group); concerning the whole country, community etc. [from 15th c.]
   • 2010, Adam Vaughan, The Guardian, 16 Sep 2010:

     A mere 3% of the more than 1,000 people interviewed said they actually knew what the conference was about. It seems safe to say public awareness of the Convention on Biological Awareness in Nagoya - and its goal of safeguarding wildlife - is close to non-existent.
3. Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the state on behalf of the community. [from 15th c.]
   • 2004, The Guardian, Leader, 18 Jun 2004:

     But culture's total budget is a tiny proportion of all public spending; it is one of the government's most visible success stories.

4. Open to all members of a community; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes. [from 15th c.]
   • 2011, David Smith, The Guardian, 10 May 2011:

     Some are left for dead on rubbish tips, in refuge bags or at public toilets.
5. (of a company) Traded publicly via a stock market.
6. (not comparable, object-oriented programming) Accessible to the program in general, not only to the class or any subclasses.

Antonyms

• private

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

public (plural publics)

1. The people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
   • 2007 May 4, Martin Jacques, The Guardian

     Bush and Blair stand condemned by their own publics and face imminent political extinction.

2. (public relations) A particular group or demographic to be targeted.
   • 2005, Donald Treadwell, ?Jill B. Treadwell, Public Relations Writing: Principles in Practice (page 19)

     To the extent that you will use them to reach many other publics, the news media will also be one of your publics.

3. (archaic) A public house; an inn.

Derived terms

• antipublic
• general public
• Joe Public
• John Q. Public
• member of the public
• public relations
• public-spirited

Translations

References

• public at OneLook Dictionary Search
• public in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• public in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• public in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.blik/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin publicus.

Adjective

public (feminine singular publique, masculine plural publics, feminine plural publiques)

1. public

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun use of public (compare Latin publicum).

Noun

public m (plural publics)

1. public (people in general)
2. audience

   Il devait plaire à son public.

   He had to please his audience

Further reading

• “public” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ladin

Adjective

public m pl

1. plural of publich

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin publicus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

public m (feminine singular publica, masculine plural publics, feminine plural publicas)

1. public

   Antonym: privat

Derived terms

• publicament

Noun

public m (plural publics)

1. public, audience

Old French

Alternative forms

• publik
• publiq
• publique

Adjective

public m (oblique and nominative feminine singular publique)

1. public (not private; available to the general populace)

Derived terms

• en public

References

• publik on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French public < Latin publicus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pu.blik/

Adjective

public m or n (feminine singular public?, masculine plural publici, feminine and neuter plural publice)

1. public

Noun

public n (plural publice)

1. the public