publish
//ˈpʌblɪʃ//
Forms
- present (v1)
- publish
- past (v2)
- published
- past participle (v3)
- published
- present participle
- publishing
- 3rd person singular
- publishes
Definitions
1.To issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale.
- The Times published the investigative piece about the governor both in print and online.
- Most of the sketches Faulkner published in 1925 appeared in the Sunday magazine section of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
- The State combined public information strategies and published billboards, pamphlets, and newsletter articles under the campaign theme, Give 'Em the Boot.
2.To announce to the public.
- No newspaper published the victim's name.
- The Bolshevik government published an announcement of the tsar's death.
- The Secretary of Health and Human Services published a press release on May 22, 2013.
3.To issue the work of (an author).
- Grove Press published many avant-garde authors.
4.To disseminate (a message) publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1064
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
From Middle English publicen (by analogy with banish, finish)
From Old French publier
From Latin publicare (“to make public, show or tell to the people, make known, declare, also (and earlier) confiscate for public use”)