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publish

[ puhb-lish ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
  2. to issue publicly the work of:

    Random House publishes Faulkner.

  3. to submit (content) online, as to a message board or blog:

    I published a comment on her blog post with examples from my own life.

    They publish a new webcomic once a month.

  4. to announce formally or officially; proclaim; promulgate.

    Synonyms: declare, reveal, disclose

    Antonyms: conceal

  5. to make publicly or generally known.
  6. Law. to communicate (a defamatory statement) to some person or persons other than the person defamed.


verb (used without object)

  1. to issue newspapers, books, computer software, etc.; engage in publishing:

    The new house will start to publish next month.

  2. to have one's work published:

    She has decided to publish with another house.

publish

/ ˈpʌblɪʃ /

verb

  1. to produce and issue (printed or electronic matter) for distribution and sale
  2. intr to have one's written work issued for publication
  3. tr to announce formally or in public
  4. tr to communicate (defamatory matter) to someone other than the person defamed

    to publish a libel



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Derived Forms

  • ˈpublishable, adjective
  • ˈpublishing, noun

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Other Words From

  • publish·a·ble adjective
  • mis·published adjective
  • non·publish·a·ble adjective
  • un·publish·a·ble adjective
  • un·published adjective
  • well-published adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of publish1

1300–50; Middle English publisshen < Anglo-French *publiss-, long stem of *publir, for Middle French publier < Latin pūblicāre to make public

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Word History and Origins

Origin of publish1

C14: from Old French puplier, from Latin pūblicāre to make public

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Example Sentences

A study recently published in Environmental Research Letters showed that fall days with fire weather have doubled because of climate change.

From Vox

In July the government published details of rescue funding for struggling universities, but made clear that any bailout would come with tough conditions.

From Ozy

They described their work in a recent paper published in the journal Analytical Methods.

Fifty years ago this week, the New York Times Sunday Magazine published an essay by the Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman.

From Quartz

In June 2018, ProPublica Illinois published an investigation that revealed hundreds of children in state care were confined in psychiatric hospitals after they completed their treatment.

You have to talk to your people before they hear from other people and you have to publish before other people publish.

What made you want to publish a memoir at this stage of your career?

Brill went on to publish his piece in Time, where it won a National Magazine Award.

Her nervousness about its content made her decide to publish it under a pseudonym, for reasons that would later become clear.

Ultimately they would go ahead along with the Washington Post and publish a host of revelations from the Snowden cache.

M. de Bourlac was enabled to publish his great work on the "Spirit of Modern Law."

I find, too, that at Lisbon they can publish false news, as well as in some other countries in Europe.

I shall not alter a single note, I replied, I shall publish the work precisely as it stands.

But he did not publish the sonnets until a long time afterwards, and with a success that the author declared to be posthumous.

Each house of the General Assembly must keep a journal of its proceedings and must publish it from time to time.

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