PUBLICLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does publicly mean? 

• PUBLICLY (adverb)
  The adverb PUBLICLY has 2 senses:

1. in a manner accessible to or observable by the public; openly

2. by the public or the people generally

  Familiarity information: PUBLICLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLICLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a manner accessible to or observable by the public; openly

Synonyms:

in public; publically; publicly

Context example:

she admitted publicly to being a communist

Antonym:

privately (kept private or confined to those intimately concerned)

Pertainym:

public (not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole)

Sense 2

Meaning:

By the public or the people generally

Context example:

publicly financed schools

Antonym:

privately (by a private person or interest)

Pertainym:

public (affecting the people or community as a whole)

 Context examples 

A week later, you could celebrate your love for each other and announce your engagement publicly, on Valentine’s Day. Perfect!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It will then be publicly seen that, on both sides, we meet only as common and indifferent acquaintance.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I was spared the disgrace of appearing publicly as a criminal, as the case was not brought before the court that decides on life and death.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday.

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

The NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.

(GenBank, NCI Thesaurus)

With the release of this catalog, derived from data publicly available on the NASA Exoplanet Archive, there are now 4,034 planet candidates identified by Kepler.

(NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates, NASA)

A majority of their clones are publicly available, free of any royalties, and may be used by anyone agreeing with their guidelines.

(Integrated Molecular Analysis of Genomes and their Expression Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)

I did what I could for him, but he would wear ribbons in his shoes, and he publicly mistook white Burgundy for Rhine wine.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The number of reviewers, the reviewing procedures and criteria, and the use made of the reviewers' opinions may vary, and therefore each reviewing organization/committee has to publicly disclose its policies.

(Peer-reviewed Scientific Project, NCI Thesaurus)

A multi-organism, publicly accessible compendium of peptides identified in a large set of tandem mass spectrometry proteomics experiments.

(PeptideAtlas, NCI Thesaurus)