PUBLIC PRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does public press mean? 

• PUBLIC PRESS (noun)
  The noun PUBLIC PRESS has 1 sense:

1. the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines

  Familiarity information: PUBLIC PRESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLIC PRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

press; public press

Hypernyms ("public press" is a kind of...):

print media (a medium that disseminates printed matter)

Meronyms (parts of "public press"):

press corps (a group of journalists representing different publications who all cover the same topics)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "public press"):

free press (a press not restricted or controlled by government censorship regarding politics or ideology)

newspaper; paper (a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements)

mag; magazine (a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it)

 Context examples 

There are no further particulars, and the whole case is in your hands now—so far as it has been set forth in the public press.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As far as I know, there have been only three accounts in the public press: that in the Journal de Genève on May 6th, 1891, the Reuter’s despatch in the English papers on May 7th, and finally the recent letter to which I have alluded.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘This,’ said he, taking a grey roll of paper from his bureau, ‘is the original of that secret treaty between England and Italy of which, I regret to say, some rumours have already got into the public press.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)