Publish
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English
Verb
Publish (third-person singular simple present publishes, present participle publishing, simple past and past participle published)
- (intransitive): To issue a medium (e.g. publication).
- (transitive): To issue something (usually printed work) for sale and distribution.
- (transitive): To announce to the public.
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Adverbs for Publish
posthumously; exclusively; surreptitiously; libelously; fraudulently; extensively; anonymously; boldly; advantageously; voluminously; compulsorily; seditiously.
Thesaurus
advertise, air, announce, annunciate, bestrew, break it to, break the news, breathe, bring out, broach, broadcast, bruit about, circumfuse, come out with, confide, confide to, deal out, diffract, diffuse, disclose, dispense, disperse, dispread, disseminate, distribute, diverge, divulgate, divulge, engrave, evulgate, express, fan out, get out, give out, give vent to, hectograph, impress, imprint, issue, leak, let get around, let in on, let out, make known, make public, market, mimeograph, multigraph, out with, overprint, overscatter, oversow, overspread, print, proclaim, produce, promulgate, proof, propagate, prove, publicize, pull, pull a proof, put forth, put out, put to bed, put to press, radiate, reissue, report, reprint, retail, reveal, run, run off, scatter, sow, sow broadcast, splay, spread, spread about, spread out, stamp, strew, strike, tell, toot, utter, vent, ventilate
Etymology
Middle English publicen (and publish to look like to 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”), from publicus (“pertaining to the people, public”); see public.
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External links
- Publish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Publish in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
